They don't necessarily conflict. People like to put other people into boxes. This person Sells. This person Develops. This per Designs. This person Manages. You

They don't necessarily conflict. People like to put other people into boxes. This person Sells. This person Develops. This per Designs. This person Manages. You are expected to be awesome at just your box, spend all your time in just that box, and above all else, to never leave your box. If your experience is in "I do a lot of everything, really well at much of it". Then you have lots of valuable knowledge and skills, but those skills look terrible on a CV. In practice, you could be 80% of an entire standalone product or service, you would make most companies a good chunk of money. But on your CV, you look like a part-time Junior Dev and part-time Junior Designer and part-time Junior Manager, etc. That's not a fair reading at all, but that's what ~90% of companies will assume. --- We don't really have a word for people who can be responsible for and execute well on a most/all of a product or service. (I wish we did, because that's my history to-date, and my CV could really use a word for it). So, when a person like this tries to apply for a job, they often have a far rougher time than you'd expect. These folks have to essentially eject a different 60% of their value for every job they apply to, which hurts them significantly in hiring/recruiting despite being an advantage when doing actual work. As far as I can tell, the only real end-goal for people like this, is to work at a small boutique consulting firm, or open their own product houses / development studios / consulting firms. Because the majority of companies simply don't value this approach.