Sounds about right. I meet many VPs of engineering of the big companies - they're nice and smart. But they don't know that much about tech. They also don't know that much about management. In fact all you really need to know is appear as a nice guy, make some decisions and delegate 100% of the rest. It's not like if you were recruiting directly whoever you delegate to either.
Most of them spend .. most of their time in the intra political wars to keep their precious salary. I'm pretty sure they'd like to work on their stuff better, but you don't let go your millions that easily... plus you'd be replaced by someone pretty much alike.
For smaller companies, what I wrote above is actually not true. The ones I know are actually passionate, and drive the engine of the company. But then again, they don't make more than the average engineer.
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Sounds about right. I meet many VPs of engineering of the big companies - they're nice and smart. But they don't know that much about tech. They also don't know that much about management. In fact all you really need to know is appear as a nice guy, make some decisions and delegate 100% of the rest. It's not like if you were recruiting directly whoever you delegate to either.
Most of them spend .. most of their time in the intra political wars to keep their precious salary. I'm pretty sure they'd like to work on their stuff better, but you don't let go your millions that easily... plus you'd be replaced by someone pretty much alike.
For smaller companies, what I wrote above is actually not true. The ones I know are actually passionate, and drive the engine of the company. But then again, they don't make more than the average engineer.