I don't know about Jeff, but Craig runs an org with tens of thousands of engineers. If he were writing code, it'd be a waste of time.

(and Craig doesn't waste his time)

Jeff Dean also eventually managed a huge org (Sanjay Ghemawat managed to avoid this)

It's not a waste of time if it makes them more effective at making decisions, gives them ideas, or keeps them abreast of what is actually going on.

Ideas, staying sharp, keeping up with swift and pytorch etc… sure, absolutely useful to code on weekends or a bit here and there.

What I meant what that there’s literal zero way someone can be an SVP and still perform any actual IC work.