You can thank companies giving out VP or Director titles to their first technical hires for that.<p>At my last company, my boss was the first technical hire. His title was Director of Software Engineering. He got that title and the responsibilities that came with it <i>solely</i> because he was the first technical hire.<p>He had no management experience at all. He was a great engineer, but he couldn&#x27;t manage his way out of a paper bag. He had the double whammy of both not knowing a thing about process and not understanding people. He didn&#x27;t think having a process was necessary because his own code was amazing, he wrote the initial versions of our software all by himself in what actually is a solid example of a well-engineered project, and he couldn&#x27;t fathom how <i>anyone&#x27;s</i> code could be less than amazing. He also couldn&#x27;t handle stress, and he had a habit of screaming at his subordinates and treating us like children whenever he got stressed.<p>His management was the biggest reason I quit.