What does a CTO actually do?

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• DilipaEli@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t know why but for some reasons I cannot take people seriously that write articles about the importance of their role.

  In the media, CTOs are often portrayed as tech geniuses or wizards, single-handedly coding complex algorithms or inventing groundbreaking technologies. Not sure what kind of media the author of this articles (op?) consumes, but I don’t know anybody who thinks something like that.

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  • tatterdemalion@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Definitely hyperbole, but it’s not uncommon for CTOs to be the main author of a company’s tech.

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• FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Somehow I get the sense that humility and authenticity aren’t required skills

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  • totallynotarobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Those aren’t required for the rest of the C Suite, why would CTO be different?

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• ImpossibleRubiksCube@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Apparently “concise writing” is not one of the core skills.

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• nibblebit@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is a bit of a narrow view of a very vague term. Working with many different sizes of organisations whomever is labelled CTO is the person accountable for the technology decisionmaking. Sometimes that’s a legacy developer, sometimes that’s the first sys admin. Sometimes it’s the VP of engineering. Sometimes that’s the guy that maintains the best relationships with software vendors. Sometimes it’s the person that was hired internally to explain the tech to the CEO. Sometimes it’s a guy that is just a public figure used to promote and maybe do DevRel for the org. Sometimes it’s the Architect that designed the ecosystem. Sometimes it’s the ancient programmer that has kidnapped the entire codebase so that no-one else can sanely work on it. Sometimes it’s a six sigma type that setup the ticketing system, PRs and the release process.

  At any size, the CTO is whatever the org needs him to be.

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• firelizzard@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That first paragraph is basically my job now, except for the investors and clients part. We have an actual CTO so he gets to deal with all that crap and I can focus on the tech stuff.

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  • colorado@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What does the CEO do?

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    • firelizzard@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He also talks to investors and clients, but about business focused subjects vs tech focused subjects. Beyond that I’m fairly vague on what he does but I’m happy with that because it means I can keep my focus (mostly) on what I find interesting.

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