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		eloisant on Feb 2, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Undercover Generalist Small companies like generalists because they have only a few engineers who have to do everything. Big companies like specialists because they have enough engineers to divide the work and have each one work on one specific aspect only.

Yanael on Feb 3, 2024 [–]

Does that impact the structure of the teams? Where a small squad owning everything or a department owning part of the stack?

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