[eropple]

> It's a completely different skillset, and you're probably only measuring how eager people are to have breadth of knowledge

In my experience, this skillet being measured is the critical indicator for high-quality development talent at a healthy shop. You might need one deep-magic wizard for a particular area. You need breadth everywhere. You need to kill "that's not my job" stone dead when you see it.

Writing code is easy. And it's usually an additive process, even when the code is subtractive. All the other stuff, the being-a-person-in-a-community stuff (because that's really what it is), is multiplicative. So I pretty unashamedly hire for curiosity and for breadth. When it's necessary, I contract out hard expertise until curious people can develop it internally.