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This is the way the corporate world has always worked. The problem is when this world collides with software, where actually knowing what the hell you're doing

• iliketosleep 7y ago
  > This is the way the corporate world has always worked. To an extent, yes, but much more so now than in the past few decades. In the past, those who were senior exectives responsible for technical aspects of the company would usually be very strong technically, having worked their way up from more junior positions and gaining management training along the way.
• cameronbrown 7y ago
  Knowing what you're doing always mattered, but you don't need to be a qualified engineer to deploy software, unlike say, a building. I maintain that we need the title of 'software engineer' to really mean something, and for someone in a position like Chief Security Officer to be qualified as such. If a bridge collapsed due to the person responsible being a music teacher then you can bet there'd be jail time.