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It sounds like you'd prefer working at a smaller (<100) company.

• philwelch 14y ago
  You don't need a smaller company, just a less stupid one. Any of your major tech companies has a fully technical career path and at least some managers with technical background.
• kabdib 14y ago
  Upvote on the "you need a less stupid company." It's terrible to have a manager who is really a frustrated top-level coder, put there by other managers to reward his or her success. It's true that you need good people skills to advance beyond a certain level of being a coder monkey. Try to find a place that respects technical leadership as a separate entity from people leadership. (For what it's worth, "architects" who don't code are some of the most useless tech people I know of, and I've generally been less than impressed -- in one case, absolutely horrified -- at the result of not keeping ones fingers in the code).