Full Stack Developer
When deciding on web developers, companies have two options: Full Stack Developers or Specialized Developers.
Full Stack Developers are multi-skilled professionals working on total development projects. This tends to make them a natural choice and increasing their demand in the job market.
- Swift Issue identification: Their multiple skills and techniques create prototypes quickly. Their familiarity with developmental stages enables quick identification and resolution of relevant issues. This makes them ideal for cross team communication and problem solving.
- On job learning: Their skill versatility helps them to grasp concepts quickly. This makes them easily trainable.
- Cost and time effective: By working in both front-end and back-end development full stack developers can replace individual specialists thereby reducing cost. Their ability to switch ends renders them more independent and reduces development time.
On the flip side, they have higher attrition rates.
Specialized Developer
Specialized Developers are area specific experts with in-depth knowledge and long experience.
- Quality of work: Their field expertise produces quality work usually superior to full stack developers
- Know how in latest trends: Their focus on a single area gives them time to keep up with the latest updates, trends, and technologies.
- Easier responsibility allocation: It is easier to allocate responsibility to specialized developers since their field of expertise is known. The entire project can be segregated into a specific task for allocation.
- Easy hires: The pool of available specialized talents lends itself to better analysis for top resources for the project.
The flip side of Specialized Developers
- Higher cost and dependency
Specialized developers lead to an increase in investment. Multiple developers are more dependent on one another for project completion increase completion time and requiring more inter department meetings and coordination.
