My current manager was a dev for an old ASP stack. He may not be up to date on the newest stacks but is miles better than non tech/IT managers. When he needs to

My current manager was a dev for an old ASP stack. He may not be up to date on the newest stacks but is miles better than non tech/IT managers. When he needs to get out of the way he does and isn’t a micromanager. He also knows databases really well which helps out the team. Our former VP was a securities trader turned IT manager, who knows how he probably knew people, and was terrible.