Most of my best bosses were non-engineers or people with no technical expertise in my domain. In my experience bosses who were recently engineers or technical e

Most of my best bosses were non-engineers or people with no technical expertise in my domain. In my experience bosses who were recently engineers or technical experience in what I was hired to do to be generally micromanagers. It sort of became a qualifying criteria. During interviews if an interviewer asked me technical questions and s/he was going to be my reporting manager, I knew we will not be a good fit. Edit: When I was young and inexperienced, I preferred bosses with technical chops and mentoring mindset. Later in my career, I preferred non-technical bosses and senior technical team members with mentoring mindset.