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I recently interviewed with him and did a collab code thing and he personally admitted to being quite rusty as he doesn't write code much anymore and it was app

I recently interviewed with him and did a collab code thing and he personally admitted to being quite rusty as he doesn't write code much anymore and it was apparent by the errors he was making. I'm surprised he was the one leading the decision in what framework to use when the extent of skills seems to cut off around jQuery. Is it normal in a large company for someone who is now doing managerial type work to be the decision maker in what the tech stack should be for the company? Or rather, shouldn't they make their decision based on a consensus of the developers opinions and research? Not trying to be snarky, or anything, I work at a smaller/ medium sized company and this is how it's done, so maybe large companies operate different.

catshirt 10y ago
it's not uncommon. someone has to make a decision and it makes sense early managers are not best suited to make technical decisions. as a company or application grows technical deficiencies resulting from bad choices will start to rear their heads and new hires with more experience will hopefully illuminate those issues. the only reason they chose vue, the article suggests, is because it's "simple". even if I concede that to be true, it is not the most important factor when making technical decisions and you will ultimately end up paying for it.