Ask HN: Front-End Bait and Switch?

Re:Ask HN: Front-End Bait and Switch? by overgard on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @04:21PM (#41185025)

My guess would be that for non-technical people it's much easier to schedule visible work (frontend) vs invisible work (backend). Are the people that are managing you less technical possibly? If you have a good technical lead they should probably understand the work to give you, but PM's and scrum masters frequently don't understand.

I guess the other thing I'd ask is, why the strong resistance to frontend work? I get not seeking jobs for it or not preferring it, I don't seek those either, but for my own personal productivity I like to have a decent idea how to build a frontend in case I'm waiting on someone that's overloaded in order to deliver my feature etc. It can be helpful for a career if you don't have to frequently tell people "I can't do that", vs, "it's not my strong suit but I can pitch in"

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Re:Ask HN: Front-End Bait and Switch? by throwawaybcknd on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @04:55PM (#41185404)

> why the strong resistance to frontend work?

I am bad at it. So they get an under-performing employee with low morale and I get complaints about my work.

> It can be helpful for a career if you don't have to frequently tell people "I can't do that", vs, "it's not my strong suit but I can pitch in"

I usually do the latter, but then in December I thought I'd better make sure, reasoning that things go better the clearer I am ahead of time. That was the first time I tried saying, "Seriously, I can't do that kind of work." This time I got nothing but that kind of work.

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