> Well T-shaped individuals have greatest chance of success. Personally, I feel like T-shaped individuals are a chimera. I don't know anyone whom I'd consider

> Well T-shaped individuals have greatest chance of success. Personally, I feel like T-shaped individuals are a chimera. I don't know anyone whom I'd considered T-shaped. Maybe it's just my location. I have noticed that even the highest placed engineers at my companies, and I'm talking world leaders in certain areas, often do not like to venture even a little bit outside of their specialization. > For example I am software developer so for business people I am a specialist. But I am also a "full stack developer" where for my fellow developers I am a generalist. Then I mostly specialize in .NET and Angular. This I can absolutely agree with. I would not call that a T-shaped person; rather, to me, the above is a generalist. I do think that this depends on a point of view. But T-shaped person signifies that a person has one deep specialization. I'd say that having a deep specialization goes against going wide. From my observation, I've never seen a person who'd have both deep specialization and be comfortable with other technologies on the side.