So what if IT folks are not the ones you would choose for “key leadership positions”? Maybe they understand something that you, and most other engineers don’t. At half the places I worked at as a sysadm or IT engineer I had access to pay bands, vendor contracts, etc. I was never impressed.

All that I saw was a lot of people fighting very hard over a very marginal and pathetic amount of money, equity, and status, while we wrote yet another multi-million dollar check to some shitty consulting firm in Eastern Europe.

You may think that we’re out of the game, but the truth is we understand it in a way you could hardly imagine.