Don't know about Google. I'm working for a defense contractor, so we may have more hoops and red tape to blunder through... but my PMs are always busy talking t

Don't know about Google. I'm working for a defense contractor, so we may have more hoops and red tape to blunder through... but my PMs are always busy talking to the customer, writing documentation, figuring out what the specs actually mean, managing, or something. There's no time left in the day to hunker down with the code (or digital logic or whatever engineering discipline the PM came from). See also "Maker's Schedule Manager's Schedule": http://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html http://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html