Full stack Engineer
Value
1. Holistic Thinking
2. communication cost: The bigger the project, the higher the communication cost, the project management know that the manpower in the project is 1+1<2, and the more people are less efficient. Because communication is a cost, different technology people say the words, the front end and the back end is bound to pinch rack. Everyone will fight for their own interests, no one is not there. And the cost of the entire stack of engineers is almost zero, because all kinds of technology are understood, have the confidence, they have done all. Even in team collaboration, it is much easier to communicate with different technicians, to have a backend and a front end to communicate, which is completely're same page, not to mention the designers and the backend. But if there is a person understand the product understand the front-end understanding of the design, the communication results are obviously different, because they speak, each other can understand.
Dilemma
Technology has two development direction, one is the vertical one is horizontal, the horizontal is the Swiss Army Knife, longitudinal is the efficient Gan Moye. These two directions are not right and wrong, the development to a certain extent will be mutually fusion, like the Chinese Buddhist meditation on the south of the north gradually, in fact, in the end, gradually enlightenment and epiphany is the same, Dayton from the gradual. If a company does not understand the value of the entire stack of engineers, then the status of the entire stack of engineers will be very embarrassed, say not a little bit, the whole stack of engineers is what will, nothing. There was an interview, the other side asked a very basic question, he could not answer, but he can make products, also know what is the same thing, he will not make those mistakes, but he is not the concept, to test him very easy. So at the time of the job interview, sometimes it will be a disadvantage, he may not be as good as those who drill deep in a certain aspect of the salary to get high. Because often in various technology shuttle, he will often forget the code syntax and some API, so he often need to check the API and even check grammar, he felt that without Google I can hardly work. This is in the eyes of some people, the performance of technology is not enough. What he remembers is a key, an index of how to find the answer, not all, the brain is not a computer, he can't write down everything.
Full stack Engineer