I worked at a company that almost only hired [nationality omitted] engineers. Seemed their goal was to become one of the managers so they could rule the others with an iron fist, much like they had been ruled for years. The very bad code proved that the engineering part of the job was mostly nominal. As a defensive measure, they knew to never hire good engineers. I was hired by one of the directors.

So in that case, the managers _were_ kind of technical but it would have been better if they weren't.