Re:Ask HN: I don't enjoy being a CTO. Now what?
by tracker1 on Monday June 13, 2016 @01:45PM
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See the last statement in the comment, "The only truly successful technical leader is the founder..."
Re:Ask HN: I don't enjoy being a CTO. Now what?
by paulsutter on Monday June 13, 2016 @01:52PM
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Google and other well run companies have skilled technical people at all management levels.
Re:Ask HN: I don't enjoy being a CTO. Now what?
by DelaneyM on Monday June 13, 2016 @03:09PM
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I'd love to meet one, or see a job description for such a role.
Re:Ask HN: I don't enjoy being a CTO. Now what?
by nostrademons on Monday June 13, 2016 @11:29PM
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When I was at Google my entire management chain had the title "software engineer" (except Alan Eustace, who officially had the title "VP of engineering" but had a hardware engineering background, and Larry Page, who had the official title of "CEO"). That was 6 levels up, including me. Amit Singhal (who was 3 levels above me and responsible for a department of 2000 people or so) was still titled "software engineer".
So how do you account for Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Larry Page, and so on?
I think you meant to say "there's no place at Dronecorp for a highly technical business leader". It's logical that Dronecorp should hire Harvard MBAs who score high on agreeableness and are skilled at showing each other powerpoints.