On the positioning of Web front-end engineers

First to the front-end engineer's work next sentence definition: The use of front-end technology to achieve good communication experience. If you put the web in front of you, it's about the web, primarily the Internet, and you can include mobile networks and other media networks, such as IPTV, because the idea is consistent.

Now it is very rare to find a Web front-end engineer that meets the skill requirements of graduating students. and the relevant field of practitioners, because not to be valued, dry chores, low salary reasons, think that the wrong business, and stopped in this direction to study hard. Ultimately, the company will not recruit a satisfactory web front-end engineer. This involves two positioning issues, that is, 1 how the Enterprise to the Web front-end engineers positioning, 2 Web front-end engineers how to position themselves. The former will have a chance to talk about it next time, first talk about the latter.

How Web front-end engineers position themselves

First of all, this is a promising job. Mr. Wei of the Hundred Homes for college students to choose a career in this proposal: the first choice of new industries, the second choice of new enterprises, the third choice of new departments. The internet industry is a new industry compared to traditional industries; there are many startups; Web front-end engineers are a new post. China's Web front-end engineers are starting, there will be good development.

Then, think about whether you are fit and enjoy the job. Web front-end engineers are not designers, and I prefer to position this position as a developer. More of the daily contact in this position is still code, code, code. If you like the design, you should adjust your learning priorities appropriately. The Web front-end engineer should be the perfectionist, or a certain degree of cleanliness, Scorpio better, more like programmers. The surgery industry has specialized, oneself thinks about own career plan more.

Finally, by trying to find a good employer. If you are positioning yourself as a Web front-end engineer, then it is appropriate to take refuge in a company that has a certain knowledge of the position (recommended Taobao). In such companies, there will be clear job descriptions and areas of responsibility, as well as a good training plan. In such a company can have a better development.

However, if you do not have the necessary skills now, you can also start from the "Art" contact. At least within a few years, the vacancy in this position is still very large. In such a post, the hardships of a year or two, at the same time pay attention to their own knowledge and the improvement of the idea of the Web front-end engineers is a step closer.

About Skills

In general, companies are more likely to opt for compound talent (aka. T-type talent). Basically, I think the skills required for Web front-end engineers are as follows:

X Html+css, from getting started to mastering

JavaScript, basic Ajax and framework

Semantic+accessibility, mainly in the thought, the idea

The rendering/redrawing principle of the browser (or the corresponding player)

Other RIA related technologies and concepts

Look at the structure of their knowledge, is not a wide cross-section of t, or a vertical is not deep enough?

Other

Finally, about the enterprise for the Web front-end engineers positioning problem. The main three:

A) is it necessary?

(b) Clear responsibilities,

c) Training Plan.

Let's talk about this later.