[astura]

Where have you worked where senior engineers do hardly any coding? What else would they do all day?! Are you sure you aren't thinking of project managers?

Everywhere I've worked (mostly large companies) the seniors write much more code than the juniors.

[pedrosorio]

Some senior engineers will be “coding machines” whereas others will be much closer to “architects” or “tech leads” where shipping a lot of code is not the most important aspect.

To be fair, most senior engineers should be involved in code reviews regularly, so it’s very unlikely they are incompetent coders.