[rramadass]

Great quote!

Engineers do very well in Leadership/Management/Marketing/Sales/etc. which i consider ancillary domains in the Tech. Industry.

The reason is that Engineering is primarily quantitative and hence Engineers are taught to breakdown their Problems into smaller pieces and solve them one-by-one by using constraining/limiting abstractions so that each piece can be solved and then integrated into a whole.

In Non-Engineering fields this problem-solving approach is never taught and enforced. Most parameters are nebulous/qualitative/interlinked and more heuristics/opinion based with the result that they never learn to break a problem into manageable pieces and solve them one by one.

[gnicholas]

I would say the reason is actually that teaching engineering requires first teaching a good deal of math and software development, which most marketers don't have (though well-educated ones may have some). Teaching marketing doesn't have as many dependencies that are rare in the general population.