This is spot on. The incentive system so much more promotes management careers that anybody who wishes to go down the tech path comes across as stupid. Its ver

This is spot on. The incentive system so much more promotes management careers that anybody who wishes to go down the tech path comes across as stupid. Its very common in services companies to treat tech people as somebody who don't have the chops to do prestigious management work. Do this for sufficient number of years and eventually you will have very few people who want to do any real work and most will want to be managers.