In my average experience, without interviewing management teams - my observation is that the "smartest person in the room" is rarely the one deciding anything.
This also depends on your definition on "smartest".
> This also depends on your definition on "smartest".
Which the parent conveniently left out a definition of. I sort of ignored that implication and went straight to the point - which is it doesn't matter if the PM is the smartest or not. What matters is who makes the decisions and typically the PM does.
This also depends on your definition on "smartest".