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Discussion on: Stop using the title "Full stack developer"

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Daniel Silva • Edited

But you're talking about "Full Stack" as every technology ever and that's not accurate. When you talk about a FULL STACK (don't care if Junior, Senior, or whatever), you're talking about someone who manages at least one programming stack. For example, a MEAN Full Stack developer is someone who knows the FULL MEAN STACK (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node), or a LAMP Full Stack Developer is someone who knows the full LAMP STACK (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Php).

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Francesco Pigozzi

You have a point: if you are proficient in one stack, then why don’t you specify it?

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Daniel Silva

Yeah, that's important! You should specify what stack you've been working on

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Specify it for tutorials - yes.
Specify it for your job title... I'd argue no.

I'm a full-stack developer. On my CV, in the description, I'll outline WHICH stack. But not in the title. "Fullstack developer" is still a valid title at any level. Most company's will only use 1 stack type, so having you specify your stack in your title would be unnecessarily convoluted.