Part of the problem is that many engineers need management above them. On the flip side most non technical people have a hard time managing engineers since you'

Part of the problem is that many engineers need management above them. On the flip side most non technical people have a hard time managing engineers since you're basically managing someone who's work you can't evaluate/see. At Stream our lead and director level hires have to be technical/ actually contributing code. I still definitely see some of the issues this developer complains about though. It's hard to avoid.