Most of the technology in use today isn't that different from what it was 10 years ago. It's a bit faster and has slightly different packaging. Any manager who

Most of the technology in use today isn't that different from what it was 10 years ago. It's a bit faster and has slightly different packaging. Any manager who last did engineering as an individual contributor ten years ago should be perfectly fine engaging in a technical discussion today at the level a manager should be doing so.