>Zuck has it right. All the worst managers/directors/VPs in engineering I've seen are people who don't contribute anything to the codebase. They actively discourage managers who want to write code from writing code. They

Wow. And these "good" managers coding, how do they meaningfully pursue strategical tasks that benefit the team and organization? Do they have time for these, 1:1s, team meetings, unblocking the blocked, translating the untranslated, and generally, um, managing?

Or do they work 80 hours?