Courtney Wilburn: The Back End Is Dead – A New Paradigm for Assessing Talent and Creating Great Applications

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December 11, 2016

When companies are in search of new developers, they look for people who fall into one of three categories: Front-End, Back-End, and Full-Stack. I feel that these categories can be limiting, and tend to be geared toward proficiency in specific programming languages. If we take a moment to consider how we think about how we use the labels we use in hiring , we may not only end up hiring more qualified people, I put forward that we might create teams more well-suited to build a wide variety of websites and applications. In this talk, I introduce a new way of thinking of the stack, and how we hire the people who build it.’

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WordCamp US 2016 52

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Courtney Wilburn 1

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Back-end 3
Developers 128
stack 4

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English 11386

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