As per the article, line jobs are where the top talent congregate, and my experience is that the distinction between working in tech (line), and working with te

As per the article, line jobs are where the top talent congregate, and my experience is that the distinction between working in tech (line), and working with tech (staff), is quite a big cultural, and recruitment gap. It's easy to get a staff job, from a good line background, but much more difficult the other way around. It's similar, though maybe less extreme, to journalism and PR. Journalists sometimes jump to PR (often much better pay and conditions, at lower ranks anyway), but it's almost (perhaps actually) never the other way around.