The company I work for now has no PM, no UI/UE. It’s just me, because I’m a full-stack engineer. I originally thought that full-stack was just front-end and back-end. I kind of want to run away.

You from Pittsburgh or something?

— I'm excited to meet our development team. Could you introduce me to them?
— Oh, I'm sorry. We don't have a development team.
— Who does all the work then?
— Mark.

"Company"?

Just like Kelvin Henney said, the stack goes all the way down and up.

Full-stack refers to the OSI stack.

Everything from cables to servers to application code to flashy frontend. And everything in-between.

Personally, I find it fun being equal (or better at) everything than those who specialize in certain areas. Except design. I can’t do design.

@electrineer Something similar happened at a previous job (when the company was still a startup). Let’s call the sole dev “John.”

At a sales conference, someone asked the manager: “So who writes the code for this awesome product?” His response was “John and his programming staff” — with John standing right there. There was no programming staff. Just John. Who had wanted to hire a dev team for a year.

When they were back at the office, John jokingly said the company had to hire him a programming staff so they wouldn’t be lying. And they did! In a way. They bought him a wooden staff, and no joke, they also engraved “John’s programming staff” onto it. He kept it at his desk, and occasionally recanted the story to the new juniors. And threatened to beat them with it for making dumb mistakes.

I'm little rusty on networking but I can get that to work.

Design, yeah, nope. UX/usability, yes but design? Best I can do is Material Design & UI.

Other than that, yeah, I could be a one person team...