Should you become a Full Stack Engineer?

In this video, I discuss Full Stack Engineering and whether you should pick that field or not.

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[yashdesai]

2-3 days ago I asked you about the same, and today you uploaded this video thanks man 🙏

[someone-lxmg]

I think full-stack engineering is good for someone want to be lead or manager. He will have the big picture.

[AdarshMenon]

Thanks for the great advice Hussein !
I would also add that, people should first focus on the basics of software engineering. Because all these fields are eventually about writing clean, reusable, reliable and robust code that can run in production. And the ability to do that comes from knowing the basics of software engineering. Once you are a great engineer, then the entry to learning any new niche becomes quite easy I guess

[jaySosa]

Honestly, this video really opened my eyes in many way. Thank you for the advice!

[Dean-zibj]

Thank you brother. I've never met you but followed you for several years. I'm sti employeed as fully front end . It's actually best for everyone because my passion is for entrepreneurship and an opportunity to do good for the world

[sergeymohov]

Totally agree with you, it's ok to start as fullstack but after several years it's better to deside what you want to specialize in, personally I've chosen the backend.

[warriorgirl]

I am an undergraduate cs student and an ongoing Full Stack Developer. During various student jobs, it kinda opened my eyes. Well at least, that's what i want to do right now. I started wanting to do back-end only. But i think there is also benefits to have solid front-end knowledge. But on the long run, i would probably go for back end DB ENGINEERING.

[JoseAlvarez-dlhm]

You can be expert in fullstack engineer but not in the broad case in which he was talking about, but more like specialized in certain stacks, like for example: angular in the fornt and .NET 6 in the back, or react with java spring and so forth. Fortunately most databases have a lot in common so if you know one you can transfer it to another database and look for in stackvoerflow when something is different. I have been a fullstack engineer for over more than 2 years and I am specialized in angular + .NET CORE, so you can be a fullstack all your life if that is what you want. If for some reasons your stack falls out of fashion, well the core knowledge you learnt previously is quite transferable.

[BinB]

The most eye-catching thing in your video The Play station box in the background along with the titles collection!!

[lord]

I liked this video very much and I agree. I started as Frontend Engineer and then decided to be Fullstack Engineer and now trying to move to backend. Even when people ask me in interview Fullstack Engineer expertise in which field - Web Engineer, Mobile Engineer, Backend Engineer, Database Engineer which one do you expertise in.

[PendlayRow]

Hello Hussein. I admire you as a Backend engineer and most of all as a database engineer. I would like to give us some pragmatic examples on when NoSQL would be a better pick than RDBs.

[koushikshomchoudhury]

In my last interview, they asked me "Why Full Stack Engineering?". I gave an honest answer: "In my ~2 YOE, I came to conclude that I still have a lot of things to learn and untill I do, I wouldn't be able to understand end-to-end solution building, thus I would like to remain a FSE for 3-5 years more and once I'm done, I'll try to shift to System/Cloud Architecting because by then I would definitely unstands points of optimization and where things could go wrong"

They did not like the honesty and said I should only apply for positions that are my end goal.

[venkatnarayangrandhe]

Got a clear picture. Thank's you for the advice! keep up doing the great job.

[HendrixRoa]

In my case I consider myself as full-stack on the server side because I'm doing backend, API, DevOps, secops, even I deploy the front end applications but I do not build HTML code, and all related to server-side. I appreciate your courage to say that because is the real world although some people don't understand that. Thanks HN

[hamza.abdullah]

For the first five minutes, I wasn't even sure he's being sarcastic or not! 😂

[danielestebanyepes]

by what you´re saying full stack is more of a temporary stage in your learning process, rather than an absolute professional given title for life, I´m new to this and I´m learning how to code, i Just started with full stack and I think you might be right. I think it´s good that I chose this path so I can get to know a general viewof programming, then I will know which one to focus on, either back end or front end.

[anpham]

Have the basic understanding of both but specialize in one.

[jesulobajohn]

Usually when you want to build portfolio projects to showcase your skill, you would build a complete application (frontend and backend). You have to do this because you won't even be considered if you don't have big projects.

So how do you show companies that you are niched when you have all these big projects?

[AnHoang]

This feels like gem quality video but with 3k views... Keep it up man, don’t stop.

[OsamahAlfatki]

What about if someone like to know all picture hardware and software to know main points and find what he can be intersting in, How can he do that?