<i>Whenever I&#x27;ve worked with managers who didn&#x27;t understand the field, interactions have always gone something like this</i><p>I&#x27;ve seen that, but there&#x27;s something even worse. It&#x27;s when a manager who doesn&#x27;t understand something thinks that it must be simple and&#x2F;or easy.<p>Where I experienced it firsthand was working for a VP of Engineering who was from a hardware background. He didn&#x27;t grok software and therefore believed that it should be easy to do. I didn&#x27;t mind, I was one of the hardware guys. But that meant that the software guys at the company were sucking hind tit.<p>Hey, at least its better than working for a company run by sales and&#x2F;or marketing people. They have contempt for both the hardware guys and the software guys.