[alchemism]

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… =)

[tayo42]

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

[biztos]

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

[bakugo]

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

[brookst]

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.