Re:Ask HN: I don't enjoy being a CTO. Now what?
by vasilipupkin on Monday June 13, 2016 @01:56PM
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You are saying Google has a lot of VPs without MBA and no product leadership experience, without any prior experience of having P&L responsibility, strictly engineering experience? Perhaps, but I am skeptical. I'd like to see the data on that.
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Re:Ask HN: I don't enjoy being a CTO. Now what?
by DelaneyM on Monday June 13, 2016 @04:08PM
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If you restrict it to product VPs, it was true as recently as 2014.
The set of Google VPs has a representative sample on LinkedIn. Prove me wrong.
Re:Ask HN: I don't enjoy being a CTO. Now what?
by vasilipupkin on Monday June 13, 2016 @06:20PM
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All the VPs who came through engineering that I found did so after having been early employees at one of the top tech companies. I buy that. But if you are going to climb the ladder now, I doubt you can do it through engineering at Google