>Having any leadership and management experience makes you prepared for more senior roles, such as Engineering Manager, VPoE, or CTO This is certainly true. Th

>Having any leadership and management experience makes you prepared for more senior roles, such as Engineering Manager, VPoE, or CTO This is certainly true. The CTO of a food delivery startup called Zomato (this is from India) was initially an intern who worked as a coder and still does quite a bit 12 years later.