Ideally, SWEs should have a product mindset. In practice, this can be difficult to achieve depending on the company. In my experience at my own job, a lot of t

Ideally, SWEs should have a product mindset. In practice, this can be difficult to achieve depending on the company. In my experience at my own job, a lot of the business level stuff is not documented anywhere. This stuff can only be learned through meetings and informal communications with other teams and things change from day to day. It's really a full time job to keep track of all these changes and get trained. In a best case, tons of business level knowledge would be documented and centralized somewhere. This would make it easier for devs to understand and contribute at levels other than Software Engineering. I understand this overhead is not something many companies want to contribute to. It's much easier to just hire a PM and let them deal with it.