#labor market

A popular framing says Product Engineer sits at the intersection of Product Manager and Software Engineer. We measured the overlap across 35,067 job postings. There is no fat intersection region. Product Engineer is a modern-stack SWE archetype.

Python appears in 29% of tech postings (2x SQL) and uniquely dominates both edges of our knowledge graph — most-required by jobs AND third-most-mentioned in docs. Plus the salary twist: Python is the floor, not the premium.