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It is nice to see how more and more tech companies are taking this initiative to hold on-campus intro to programming classes (mostly it is javascript or python). But before most of these companies decide to teach coding to every single employee, I would first focus on those god awful "tech" project managers who get hired because of some fancy MBA degree and most of the time they have no clue about the complexities of a software project in general.

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People generally want to do their best, including the project managers you refer to. Project managers with less tech expertise will often find themselves frustrated that they can't get what they want. On average, I would expect them to participate enthusiastically because this will help them be more effective.

At different companies, there will be different pain points: salespeople who overpromise, pixel-perfectionist designers, etc.

Regardless, having people speak the tech team's language will tend to benefit the tech team, so it behooves us to take a positive attitude when people are willing to engage.

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