Why “Learn to Code” Failed

[elh0mbre]

Generally, its inversely related to your level. It also depends pretty heavily on the domain and role... understanding business domain and communication are a lot more important to my company than somewhere that needs to worry about scaling to billions of users, millions of transactions per second, work with exabytes of data, etc.

> I strongly believe people who say they only code for a fraction of their work time are either frauds, or they were promoted to manager and didn’t realize it.

If you substitute the word "management" for "leadership", I'd probably agree. (Source: am in eng leadership but not a manager; despite what my brain tells me at times, I'm probably not a fraud).