• _____@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    I work full stack and even do dev operations and my title is not “full stack” and I believe the reason why is so HR can argue to pay me less.

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      1 day ago

      The only way to get what you’re worth is to change jobs. Then do it again in a couple more years.

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        1 day ago

        Just web, which is bullshit cause i literally work with like 3 OSs and 5 programming languages, ci cd. I just get thrown into a random project and come out with solutions. I told my manager my title should be software dev but he disagreed, shucks I guess.

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          18 hours ago

          Did you tell him you guess you have to stop doing non-web development then? Clearly you’re not qualified if you can’t have the corresponding title.

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        2 days ago

        Eh, this is a thing, large companies often have internal rules and maximums about how much they can pay any given job title. For example, on our team, everyone we hire is given the role “senior full stack developer”, not because they’re particularly senior, in some cases we’re literally hiring out of college, but because it allows us to pay them better with internal company politics.

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        2 days ago

        That really depends on the company. At big tech companies, it’s common for the levels and salary bands to be the same for both generalists (or full stack or whatever you want to call them) and specialists.

        It also changes depending on market conditions. For example, frontend engineers used to be in higher demand than backend and full-stack.