This is the worst class of managers I have ever experiences: engineering managers with little dev experience. They rose quickly and became managers fairly early

This is the worst class of managers I have ever experiences: engineering managers with little dev experience. They rose quickly and became managers fairly early on in their career. They got excited by the opportunity, but then realised early on that they mostly attend meetings and write e-mails. They miss coding, so they try and code between meetings, but without knowing our engineering practices, code reviews, agile methodology, ...