Comment by alchemism

1 month ago

Yet most organizations in existence pay the people “who hasn’t touched a computer in 30 years” quite a large amount of money to continue to solve problems, for some inscrutable reason… =)

There is a track now for people to stay in engineering and get paid more then their manager

  • That "track" gets increasingly illusory the farther you walk it.

    • It isn’t, but it’s not possible to get paid like that if your work isn’t a necessary component in the work that earns the company a lucrative payday.

Managers being overpaid and overvalued is a well known phenomenon, yes.

  • It’s as old as the issue of narrowly-focused ICs having no appreciation for or interest in anything outside their narrow (but deep) expertise.