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Stop just using “Frontend” or “Backend” to describe the Engineering you like - Michelle Lim

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Why the “frontend” vs “backend” engineering axis doesn't map well to engineers’ psychology. And how using just one division can lead to job mismatches, turnover, and even push some new grad engineers into product management.

Stop just using “Frontend” or “Backend” to describe the Engineering you like - Michelle Lim Michelle Lim Stop just using “Frontend” or “Backend” to describe the Engineering you like Posted at - Sep 13, 2020 Also posted on Medium here . If there is one tip I could share with my fellow new engineers, it would be… Stop relying on the “Frontend/Backend” axis to understand the engineering you like. The “Frontend/Backend” axis doesn’t map well to engineers’ motivations. If you only use that axis, you can end up in projects you don’t like or worse still, give up on engineering prematurely. Instead, t

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