[elijaht]

Not for the vast majority of software engineers, in my experience. Most teams do have some type of specialization (even CRUD apps often require some detailed knowledge of scale, localization/i18n, etc) but that just leads to the expectation that a generalist will need to spend some months onboarding. I do think our hiring process captures a lot of the skill needed to onboard and be successful in this situation

There definitely are a handful of roles that require more specialized backgrounds. I would say that leetcoding for something like that is a disservice to both parties, but I think that is a small fraction of the overall workforce

[lapcat]

The question, I think, is whether the quality of work of a generalist after some months of onboarding is going to be comparable to a specialist with years of domain-specific knowledge and experience.