"... nobody seems to think that I'm anything more than a code monkey" Are you talking to the wrong people? I realized something similar when going through tec

"... nobody seems to think that I'm anything more than a code monkey" Are you talking to the wrong people? I realized something similar when going through tech interviews with a company (in a field I knew well) and none of the dev managers could tell me anything about their products competitive landscape... The team leads were completely unfamiliar with their competitor's features.