We had a very large QA silo in a previous company. ~150 people all working under a former QA (non-developer) person turned into a "QA VP". It was a disaster in

We had a very large QA silo in a previous company. ~150 people all working under a former QA (non-developer) person turned into a "QA VP". It was a disaster in so many ways. Empire-building tendencies, large numbers of bad hires, etc. The solution was to break up this silo and getting these people into the product teams where more technical people could handle management and hiring.