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I'm nearly 25 years in to my career, and a common pattern I've seen at the dozen companies I've worked for in that time is that engineering managers and CTOs that are in touch with their engineering teams are few and far between. My question for this thread is this: is it almost unanimous across the industry that we typically find that our CTOs and sometimes even EMs are viewed as completely incompetent and out of touch with what their ICs and subordinates see the company doing in their operatio