> Good managers for dev teams should have enough technical knowledge themselves and demand explanations from participating devs why a candidate is or isn't good

> Good managers for dev teams should have enough technical knowledge themselves and demand explanations from participating devs why a candidate is or isn't good enough to see through that though. I have a hunch that this is quite rare in most companies. Most managers are unskilled enough to override their own intuitions in favor of the mediocre leetcode dev that just vetoed a strong engineer.