> I will call it a statistical anomaly, but the worst engineers are now in 'people management' positions. Is that a bad thing? The person worst at writing code

> I will call it a statistical anomaly, but the worst engineers are now in 'people management' positions. Is that a bad thing? The person worst at writing code is removed from doing it, and the (same) person managing engineers has at least done it. Unless the managers are pushing technical decisions on the team (does not sound like it), why wouldn't you want the worst engineers to become the people managers? To say nothing of the common idea that engineering skill and people skill don't coexist often in the same people. > , so I took my own advice Always good! I've taken other people's advice over my own to my determent before. Of course I've also taken other people's advice and it worked out way better than my dumb ideas. Blending them is hard. Any commonly given out advice you benefited from flatly ignoring? > and was able to see some of them in the audience from the stage. Sorry, the article implies this is an announcement of the program. It seemed like it was going to be done individually-ish. Was it a massive meeting instead?