How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown from 1 to 100 engineers

Re:How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown from 1 to 1... by stronglikedan on Thursday June 28, 2018 @04:54PM (#17420405)

Reporting hierarchy is there for a good reason. If you report to multiple people, you're the one that's going to have a bad time when they're not aligned with each other, each trying to give you a different list of priorities.

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Re:How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown from 1 to 1... by yarper on Thursday June 28, 2018 @05:16PM (#17420549)

Why don't they know what's important and what's not?

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Re:How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown from 1 to 1... by jcheng on Thursday June 28, 2018 @07:24PM (#17421293)

In a larger organization, "knowing what's important and what's not" at all times can be practically a full time job in and of itself. A lot of engineering teams like to protect individual developers from meetings and conference calls so they can focus on development, but that necessarily means developers will be missing context.

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