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Every CTO I've ever known has been a complete dipshit
I think a lot of the time they're engineers who think they're too good for engineering. Imagine being too arrogant to be an engineer, one of the most arrogant professions in my experience.
Like engineer engineer? Or software “engineer “?
Honestly both. Though there is something about coding that seems to attract or create a specific sense of superiority. Unless you're talking about train engineers, the few I've met have been really cool. This is all based purely on my experience but I've worked in engineering all of my adult life.
software engineers are insufferable for the most part though
I had a great CTO and the things that made him great (expertise with the platform, genuinely collaborative brainstorming, respect for teams’ autonomy) were gradually torn away via restructuring and “accountability” measures. Upper management can’t stand any sort of informal or horizontal structures producing good results because it invalidates there need for their existence.
Someone that is actually competent at hard to buy skills also becomes a liability for them. A healthy organization would use them to skill up their workforce. Capitalism looks for a way to make them unnecessary.