This is my personal blog, all opinions written are of my personal thoughts not my employer.
So you have just sent in your resume, you’re applying for a Front-end Engineer position at a company. Let’s just say, hypothetically, I am the hiring manager. What am I really looking for?
I am often asked “what does a ‘front-ender’ do?” My response has usually been, we start where the files are served out over http(s) all the way to the user. We work in the jsp, or whatever file will be served up. We handle the presentation and the interaction. We deal with: CSS/HTML/JavaScript, ActionScript/Flash, Silverlight, whatever. We handle… and it goes on and on. Not a very concise answer. It becomes a rather complicated answer very quickly.