Many companies, especially those that don’t specialize in tech, don’t realize that tech managers need to be intimately involved in the latest technologies by actually working with them, even if only a little.
You can make up lost ground pretty quick if you started from active development, but so many companies pull tech managers away from technical contact so entirely that they lose touch and can’t relate to workers anymore, falling into upper management groupthink.
Annoyingly, my boss was an engineer until about two or three years ago and he’s somehow got AI brain now.
Many companies, especially those that don’t specialize in tech, don’t realize that tech managers need to be intimately involved in the latest technologies by actually working with them, even if only a little.
You can make up lost ground pretty quick if you started from active development, but so many companies pull tech managers away from technical contact so entirely that they lose touch and can’t relate to workers anymore, falling into upper management groupthink.