Re:Ask HN: Negotiating Salary
by schoolornot on Sunday May 30, 2021 @01:51PM
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You’re a CTO so I imagine you’re hiring mostly directors and VPs and it comes down to whether you like the candidate or not. At a lot of companies you just have to be noticeably better than everyone else because after 5+ employees interviewing 5+ candidates, most managers have had enough with the time the team has sunk into that process. As a candidate, if you can find out how long the role has been open, you can really play ball.
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FYI, CTOs at startups often directly interview and hire technical candidates...
Re:Ask HN: Negotiating Salary
by seattle_spring on Sunday May 30, 2021 @02:52PM
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While I don't know about this specific person, more likely on HN "CTO" is just a self-appointed "fake it til you make it" title. The amount of times I've casually poked at a "CTO" profile here only to find them to be a recent
bootcamp grad working at a company of 2 with no funding...
The fun part of this exercise is that some people on HN give their real name or a way to find out their real name like the commenter did. They’re part of a pretty small company as far as I can tell. Closer to 25 people.
even in medium-sized companies cto often participates in hiring process for high-level engineers. Basically the rule is if you are hiring person you are gonna interact often, you want to evaluate him yourself
Depends on company size. I am in a <100 employee company that is not a software organization. I lead the IT group (12 including myself). I report to the COO. He participates in interviews for candidates who would be in my group -- even those that report to one of my supervisors.
Even in larger groups, I wouldn't be surprised if the CTO participated deeper than you might at first assume.