I think it also leads to people rising to their level of incompetence. You might be a brilliant coder, but really not be good at handling a managerial post at

I think it also leads to people rising to their level of incompetence. You might be a brilliant coder, but really not be good at handling a managerial post at all. Heads-down coding and management are two very different things, yet one is often treated as a reward for doing the other well.