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Discussion on: Backend Engineering Skills Are Emphasized Too Heavily for Principal Engineers

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Right now one of the biggest problems that businesses are concerned about is scalability, data is increasing and the bottleneck is usually the backend infrastructure. Ex, doesn't matter how good YouTube's UI is if videos don't load.

Because of this businesses put UX in the back burner, using pre built solutions and cutting as many edges as they can, heck they even do that with the backend. The backend is just the first point of improvement they focus on once they realize their business can't function anymore with a subpar product.

And even in design focused companies, what that usually translates to is hiring more designers, better UI mockups and design systems. Frontend engineers are mostly just treated like code monkeys that have to translate those designers into the product directly. No code level implementations of design systems, accessibility reviews, standard compliance, etc.