>Best I have seen is engineer with phD and decades of experience be the research/architecture guru, no team, no direct reports While we're at it, does anyone r

>Best I have seen is engineer with phD and decades of experience be the research/architecture guru, no team, no direct reports While we're at it, does anyone recommend going for PhD in EECS fields for someone who doesn't like at all to be in academia or do "research" (aka read pdfs, write proposal/papers, code up and run simulations)?