Hiring non-technical people into technical roles is OK if you also have some senior tech people to guide them. You wouldn't want to have the inexperienced non-

Hiring non-technical people into technical roles is OK if you also have some senior tech people to guide them. You wouldn't want to have the inexperienced non-tech people making critical engineering decisions. Software development is like building a house of cards - If you want to build a tall structure, you have to start with a solid base.