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[GoldenMonkey]

Microsoft has done this all along. Managers are programmers, they divide their time between programming and managing. The feeling within Microsoft, was how can someone who is not a programmer, manage programmers?

[al05 → GoldenMonkey]

I'm pretty sure its illegal for non-lawyers to manage lawyers.

[arethuza → al05]

Lots of companies have in-house legal counsel - they can't all be managed by lawyers unless it is lawyers all the way up to and including the CEO.

What it might be is that law firms in most places can't have partners who are non-lawyers, but that's quite different.

[tyree732 → al05]

This is incorrect. The company I work for has a legal department that reports to upper management.

[al05 → tyree732]

My mistake, I just heard someone mention it before.

[jdp23 → GoldenMonkey]

And look how well it's worked for them ...

[mryall → jdp23]

The problems started when they forgot this rule for senior management and made the CEO a sales guy instead of an engineer.

[maxxxxx → jdp23]

It worked for them well for a long time. From what I hear managers there finally have managed to take over.

[patio11 → jdp23]

May we all be cursed with Microsoftian levels of failure.

[code_duck → jdp23]

A multi-hundred billion dollar valuation, a monopoly or two and the founder being the richest man in the world for years is good... right?