Re:I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer
by renox on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:17PM
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My previous manager was non technical, my current manager is an ex-developer, it makes things a bit simpler to have an ex-developer as manager but it isn't 'that' different, it just meant that before I had to simplify the description of the issues, which is a good thing anyway (most of the time).
And the best thing my manager can do for our team is political: each team/site competes for the more interesting features to develop..
There is, but probably not in a Software company, since they tend to prefer promoting experienced programmers to managers based on their tech skills (for better or worse)
Companies that work in logistics, banking, engineering etc. and have in-house software teams, but don't ship software as their primary business are far more open to hiring non-programmers as software team managers (for better or worse). If you have any domain knowledge about the area they're operating in that often weighs much higher.