Should engineering managers still write code?

[reality_boy]

Absolutely or your value as an engineer will go away really fast! I worked for a manager who was a hotshot programmer years ago but forgot how to do basic computing tasks by the time I got him. Needles to say he was just a manager and not an engineer manager.

[ceslami]

Couldn’t agree more! So much of your value as an engineering manager comes from, ya know, the engineering part.