Comment by bartread

Yeah. I have occasionally seen the opposite: worked a couple of places where leaders were so keen for people not to write code it became frustrating. But never had anyone breathing down my neck to spend more time writing code.

I will say this. After all the thinking and discussion is done, code is the means by which the desired value is realised, so if you're an engineer and you never write any at all there is a chance you might not be as involved in delivering that value as you might like to think. Plenty of situations where that's not true, of course, but it's definitely one of those things that can be a smell.