Rule of thumb is the worse an engineer is the sooner they try to make a dash into management or other non-coding role. Doing the job you're not cut for is incredibly stressful and humiliating.
It is important though to not compensate for the humiliation with smugness to those who are good at their job.
It happens before entering the workforce too. I can't tell you how many of my classmates left the EE department for the business school riiiight around the time when circuit parameters went from being scalars to vectors
It is important though to not compensate for the humiliation with smugness to those who are good at their job.