Well, I do think it is more challenging to reach the highest individual contributor pay grades as a generalist. On the other hand, being the one person in the o

Well, I do think it is more challenging to reach the highest individual contributor pay grades as a generalist. On the other hand, being the one person in the org that understands how all the pieces play together and can debug all up and down the stack brings a lot of value and is eventually recognized. I now work in robotics, and being able to chase bugs through mechanical, sensor behavior, electrical, firmware, drivers, software, across ethernet, CAN bus, config files, calibration extrinsics, closed loop controllers... etc.... being that kind of bug hunter is valued and has worked out well for me. I feel zero age discrimination in my role, despite needing 7 bits to hold my age.