Firmly disagree. While a manager doesn’t need to be a productive engineer, they do need to be able to call out bullshit. And that is really tough if you don’t s

Firmly disagree. While a manager doesn’t need to be a productive engineer, they do need to be able to call out bullshit. And that is really tough if you don’t speak the language. Multiple times I’ve had engineers tell me something was impossible, or strictly necessary, or too hard, when it demonstrably wasn’t. If you let too much of that happen, your product suffers.