> They are fearful and paranoid of making a bad hire because they don't know how to assess whether the engineer is destroying the company from the inside.
This is the obvious conclusion. I wonder when investors will wake up to the value of having engineering-savvy management.
> I wonder when investors will wake up to the value of having engineering-savvy management.
To be fair, engineering-savviness and willingness to be management (especially the kind of management that are legible to investors) are substantially anticorrelated.
This is the obvious conclusion. I wonder when investors will wake up to the value of having engineering-savvy management.