Comment by loeg
No. Good in that developers are exposed to outside skills and ideas they wouldn't be by spending 10 years doing the same thing.
No. Good in that developers are exposed to outside skills and ideas they wouldn't be by spending 10 years doing the same thing.
I don't think it's good or bad per se. Depends o ntje company needs and the individual desite.
But as someone who originally wanted to be a specialist (or at the very leastT-shaped), I see a lot more problem in fostering specialists than generalists under this model. Sometimes you do just need that one guru who breathes C++ to come in and dig deep into your stack. Not always, but the value is irreplaceable.