Do you feel the market for front end engineers is over-saturated?

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I ask as my 2023 interview experiences were pretty awful, and through it + speaking with others, it seems like an over-saturated market. Likewise, I'm thinking of diversifying to be more full-stack so that I have more market-ability (now employed).

I know that there will always be a market for people who do their jobs well, and 2023 was indeed a perfect storm, but what are your thoughts on the above?

gigster · Accepted Answer

Everyone's been shitting on frontend since it started. I think only special unicorns who are especially talented at Frontend should do frontend. It's a specialization that has a good market for the right fitting person in high end application development use cases. Being frontend focused doesn't excuse one from being full stack capable, though. You should have built some full stack systems and apps before going into frontend, I think.

Web isn't going away. People saying frontend is over don't know or want to understand the changing web environment or demand.

billy · Answer

In an up market everyone wants specialists, in a down market everyone wants generalists.  Supply side, there is an over abundance of people who have done some React and can get stuff out the door.  Demand side, products in the AI era are not competing on UX as much as they did a few years ago.  ex: Compare the UI complexity of ChatGPT to the Ui complexity of something like instagram

Sdsarakas · Answer

IMO people get tired of hearing full stack. What it usually means is that a person can do a little bit of both but not be an expert at either. For frontend specifically, it tends to be highly repetitive work and it is easier for someone to do starting out because you aren't working with abstracts nearly as much as back end development.

Titantinus · Answer

The low code movement seems to be a risk to the demand for frontend specialists.

Do you feel the market for front end engineers is over-saturated?

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