You are taking a massive corporate risk by bringing in someone who doesn't know what they are doing. I would be equally worried if I was the director of engine

You are taking a massive corporate risk by bringing in someone who doesn't know what they are doing. I would be equally worried if I was the director of engineering and had to work with this person. Ditto if I was a lower level engineer. If I had to guess the poster is actually talking about engineering and confusing it with technology ... which is a whole different problem.