While you may not need them directly, lacking competence in the basic language of computer science is a red flag, for any kind of software engineer.
Although, if your attitude is that web developers aren't real software engineers and shouldn't be expected to do real software engineering, then I guess you might have a different view on this.
But I think it would be sad to relegate them to some kind of second-class code-monkey status.
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While you may not need them directly, lacking competence in the basic language of computer science is a red flag, for any kind of software engineer.
Although, if your attitude is that web developers aren't real software engineers and shouldn't be expected to do real software engineering, then I guess you might have a different view on this.
But I think it would be sad to relegate them to some kind of second-class code-monkey status.