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by gottorf
960 days ago
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> they think technical competence and expertise is what helps someone up the food chain. The truth is it’s who you know not what you know. Well, technical competence and expertise does not necessarily translate to managerial competence and expertise. It's two distinct skill sets. Getting machines to work is very different than getting people to work. |
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This can't be overstated. The best engineer could be the worst manager.
That said, managers should have at least some level of technical knowledge on what they're managing. I'm a security engineer that once worked under a CISO who had very little technical knowledge and it showed. Having to explain things to him multiple times got frustrating. We're talking on the level of "Hey, our nmap scans are showing we have port 443 open on our web app. We should have all ports closed." and then trying to explain why that would make our web app completely inaccessible.