Ask HN: Is the Generalist Dead?
Throwaway account since I'd rather not have this tied to my job hunt. I spent the last 2 years building a SaaS startup that the pandemic killed. I've been founder or the first non-founder engineer for most of my 13 year career. I am now in the uncomfortable position of looking for a job and it's not going the way it has in the past. I'm very good at talking to nontechnical stakeholders, gathering requirements, implementing them on the frontend and backend, building the infrastructure, and deploying the code. In short: I can own the entire process from start to finish. Nobody seems to want this anymore. They want people who have spent X years working exclusively with Y framework that they can slot in to do only that. When I tell people what I've been doing they act like I'm crazy, that nobody can own the entire process from start to finish. They then ask me to do code golf or answer obscure programming trivia that only a specialist would know. So here'
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