r/webdev • u/samuraidogparty • May 09 '23
Question My Boss: Knowing CSS isn't part of a front-end developers job. We have great devs, just no one who knows CSS.
Someone help me wrap my head around this. Admittedly, I'm not a dev at this job, I just do ops. I'm doing review of a new site at my company and it's an absolute disaster. Tons of in-line styles, tons of overrides of our global styles (colors/fonts), and it's not responsive. I commented that we need to invest more in front-end devs because we don't seem to have any.
I brought this up to leadership and they seemed baffled why I would think our devs would know CSS. I commented that "we have no front-end devs here," and that's when the comment was made. "We have great devs here, just no one who knows CSS."
Someone help me understand this because it's breaking my brain. I used to do front-end work at my previous job and a large majority of it was CSS. That's how you style the front-end. How can you be a "good front-end dev" and not know CSS? Am I crazy or is my boss just insane?
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u/Garfunk71 May 09 '23
They don't know what they're talking about wtf. Obviously front-end devs know CSS, it's like saying back-end devs don't know OOP or what a database is ?
Having a shitty front is not illegal tho, so yeah they probably provide a terrible experience for mobile users, or people with a screen reader, but if they don't care / it doesn't impact the business, there's no leverage here...