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This might sound jaded but for FAANG just focus on gaming promo process and delivering “business value” (however your org defines value). In fact, business and soft skills start to out weigh tech skills as you level up because figuring out how to communicate across a monsterous org is have the battle.

For most startups I believe generalists are more important since the teams can’t afford to hire specialists in every technical issue they tackler