Yet most organizations in existence pay the people “who hasn’t touched a compute...

tayo42 · 2026-01-22T21:16:29 1769116589

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

biztos · 2026-01-23T06:55:46 1769151346

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

austinshea · 2026-01-24T01:35:38 1769218538

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.

bakugo · 2026-01-22T18:33:53 1769106833

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

brookst · 2026-01-22T20:32:59 1769113979

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.