> Not to mention that after not touching any code for a whole year I'd be questioning your ability to be doing technical hires in the first place. I you read c

> Not to mention that after not touching any code for a whole year I'd be questioning your ability to be doing technical hires in the first place. I you read code from 20 years ago, you will be surprised that there is good and bad code. Most of the code techniques were developed decades ago. If you stop coding you are going to be more slow when you have to start to do it again. But you don't forget the principles. You will find managers that user to be developers that are bad coders. That does not mean that they have forgotten how to code, in my experience they were not good to start with and that is why they changed profession.