I have noticed that when interviewing, the more specialized technical people often look down on full stack engineers, whereas managers are more excited about it.
I consider myself full stack, but in my last role I presented myself as a frontend engineer, with some backend experience. Eventually this role just kinda expanded into both frontend and backend.
Now that I do contract work, I present myself as whatever they need, with my current contract, I was hired to do frontend, but just started looking at the backend when running into some problems or questions about the data. There's always a point where they ask you "oh, you can work on the backend too?".
I consider myself full stack, but in my last role I presented myself as a frontend engineer, with some backend experience. Eventually this role just kinda expanded into both frontend and backend.
Now that I do contract work, I present myself as whatever they need, with my current contract, I was hired to do frontend, but just started looking at the backend when running into some problems or questions about the data. There's always a point where they ask you "oh, you can work on the backend too?".