And a good company will have (former) engineers in senior leadership. Most of the tech companies I've worked for (non-fangs) had former engineers up to the CTO

And a good company will have (former) engineers in senior leadership. Most of the tech companies I've worked for (non-fangs) had former engineers up to the CTO/CDO/CIO level. Not exclusively, but there was a pretty good chance that the manager or director of a technology department used to work in the salt mines.