> In France, top positions in the administration are usually filled by people that are technically excellent and have gone through the system of grandes écoles

> In France, top positions in the administration are usually filled by people that are technically excellent and have gone through the system of grandes écoles (ENS, ENA, X, ...), whereas in Germany most people rise through social engineering and party politics and most top positions in the administration are filled by people with law degrees that don't have a clue about technology [..] Would one really claim France is succeeding at a national level in the technology space due to all those excellent technically-trained administrators? > In my opinion that's also a reason why we completely fail in everything regarding digitalization, lawyers are simply not good technical problem solvers Why are administrators supposed to be the ones actually solving technical problems? Aren't government administrators more likely to be reading and writing plans and contracts (which trained [ex-]lawyers must have _some_ useful skills...)?