Engineers at higher levels, like staff engineers, are expected to still regularly code. As they should. The non coding software developer is one of my pet peev

Engineers at higher levels, like staff engineers, are expected to still regularly code. As they should. The non coding software developer is one of my pet peeves, call it architect if you want. I can appreciate the idea of collecting a paycheck producing wiki entries, drawing diagrams and making slideshows, but they are no substitute for leading by example. In fact, my empirical finding is that the tendency to describe software in prose is usually inversely correlated with the technical ability to create the executable.