I saw the phrase "full stack engineer" cross my path recently. The first time I saw this, I wrote something on Google-internal Buzz. Read on.
@robpike When your nail is the web, full stack is your hammer.
I feel it’s such a recruiting term and I’m not a fan of it. It’s all development. I like some of it better (go) than others (html/css/js). But as a software engineer a problem is a problem, and if code can solve it, we can write it.
The problem isn’t what people know, but if they refuse to learn anything new. I’d happily take a job where I didn’t know the language or the domain. I can learn. I’ve done it many times before.