“T Shaped” and “Pi Shaped”

Let's explore what "T-shaped", "pi-shaped", and "comb-shaped" engineers are.

“T-shaped” engineer

As an industry, we will not stop trying to have our cake and eat it too. With “full stack” in disgrace, the current iteration of this is the “T-shaped” engineer. This was first defined by Valve in their Employee Handbook:

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