> However, being able to tackle open-ended problems is a huge value to businesses and it's the reason senior engineers make a lot more. If you have "open-ended

> However, being able to tackle open-ended problems is a huge value to businesses and it's the reason senior engineers make a lot more. If you have "open-ended" problems, your managers are doing a bad job. Hell, I know that happens in real life, but then senior engineers are not more just senior engineers, they are jack of all trades (and not only at the tech level): they know about people, they know about product, and sure they know about tech. With these kind of senior engineers, one doesn't need managers anymore.