Re:Ask HN: I don't enjoy being a CTO. Now what?
by giaour on Monday June 13, 2016 @01:02PM
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You might be right about the startup world, but there is a massive demand for techie MBA/business-y Eng at the sub-VP level in big tech companies with tiered management. That sounds like exactly the skill set you would need to manage a division or org of one of the big 5.
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Re:Ask HN: I don't enjoy being a CTO. Now what?
by DelaneyM on Monday June 13, 2016 @01:14PM
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Demand & applicability != opportunity.
Maybe it's chicken & egg, maybe it's a Unix philosophy applied to organizational design (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Do_One_Thing_a...), but there is virtually no true demand for an engineering MBA.
I'm happy to be proven wrong with a counter-example of a posted job description. Try to find one example of a hybrid position with more potential and better pay than a corresponding pure engineering role.