[elmerfud]

No where was I making the point that engineers are special. It's that other teams not not special, but they get to be special by being allowed to not understand one core group of employees. To foster a good environment, culture and cooperation between teams it's important that there is a strong crossover in skills and knowledge.

Your response is making my point that other teams do view themselves as special by blatantly ignoring the basic skills of the engineers. For everyone of those items there are dedicated teams who are the experts, but companies expect that all employees have a functional knowledge of them. So, why do they not expect that, in a tech company, those dedicated teams to have a functional knowledge of engineering. There is no communication without a common frame of reference.