Your CTO Should Actually Be Technical
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Why engineering leaders also need to be great engineers.
\How technical should a CTO/VPE be? It’s a question you might think contains its own answer—aren’t Chief Technology Officers or Vice Presidents of Engineering…always technical? You would be surprised how many CTOs/VPEs are good but not great technically. It's an oddity of the managerial class prevalent in many tech companies. Each stage of growth in the engineering team creates new management layers that abstract the person in charge away from the actual technical work. This creates selection pressure for leaders who can manage the managing, which often leads away from the most technically…
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