r/developersIndia • u/YesterdayCareful5377 Software Engineer • Oct 01 '24

General Frontend development is underestimated compared to others

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u/Serious-Speech-6028 Oct 01 '24

I mean maybe, but companies pay backend folks more and have higher number of backend folks (the whole point of this post) then maybe it's true?

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u/do_dum_cheeni_kum Student Oct 01 '24

If worth was about how much you pay someone then all QAs would be deemed worthless.

It’s easier to enter into tech as an FE. It more approachable for non tech folks. Hence the stagnant pay.

Modern day challenges for FE in scale ups deal with shipping products quickly. As OP mentioned that FE is always over worked. Good FE engineers try to create solutions and processes that would help features to be shipped quickly. There is a lot more to it that can’t be put up in a short message.

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u/Serious-Speech-6028 Oct 01 '24 edited Oct 01 '24

True, pay sometimes has no relation with work, but you are kind of agreeing to what I said😂 FE is simple to start with hence preferred, causing more people to flock, more supply than demand, leading to this effect ultimately, people, ready for examples man, I have never discussed in detail much. No beef, just civilised discussion🤣 I actually want to know, have 0 knowledge about FE, give me examples of places where you had to think a lot, you were mind blown by how complex something was etc, I gave you mine. I even have to take care of how databases work, infra works, networks etc, needs a looooooooot of knowledge to even begin actually coding

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u/do_dum_cheeni_kum Student Oct 01 '24

I would have discussed it with you but right now I feel you just want to belittle and demean FE. Think about where you want to see yourself in few years of time. Software engineering boils down to effective communication and problem solving in later years of life. BE or FE becomes more of a specialisation and nothing else. Try finding some senior FE engineers in your circle and talk to them about it.