Dual response to you and raverbashing, since you both express the same concept: Having non-technical management interview and assess technical hires is a serio

Dual response to you and raverbashing, since you both express the same concept: Having non-technical management interview and assess technical hires is a serious process error. If you are hiring someone, regardless of what it is for, and you task someone with evaluating that candidate in an area the interviewer knows little to nothing about you have screwed up royally and need to fix your process. I haven't seen that happen in a real engineering company, at least not for technical roles.