I also feel that broad experience with general technical exposure is very valuable. But it can be hard to sell it to the management. In my previous job I was h

I also feel that broad experience with general technical exposure is very valuable. But it can be hard to sell it to the management. In my previous job I was highly respected, both technically and as a technology PM, but I still failed to sell many candidates without a good paper background. "Her degree is in music? That's not great.", even though it was science focused, she had several acoustics and waveform analysis projects, strong math background and would fit well in our signal processing group.