Adam Ward predicts that highly specialized, narrowly-focused technical roles will decline in demand as companies seek more generalist engineer-designer hybrids.
“I think that's like a a real supply demand issue right now. I think maybe the thing that is waning, I would say is like the specialized technical person. The person who is I you know, it's because I think you almost see this like squeezing together of engineer product design in some ways where we would love a designer who could actually do fur be more of like a design engineer.”
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