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> The skills and character required to be a succesfull developer are totally different than whats needed for C level. I would disagree. Hiring for a small comp
by matwood 4y ago
> The skills and character required to be a succesfull developer are totally different than whats needed for C level.
I would disagree. Hiring for a small company/startup typically leans towards people with a breadth of skills. You need the first set of engineers to be thinking about the product and the business in addition to how to build something. Good leaders will also emerge from those early hires, otherwise the company will struggle to grow. Those early hires are often well suited to eventually move into executive roles.
I think the bigger issue is whether the early engineers want to stop coding and be in management where their primary job is hiring, strategy, and sales (everyone sells all the time in a small/medium sized company).
- ClumsyPilot 4y agolet me put this another way - we are in a thread, where the headline is 'founders suck at hiring C level execs' and your solution is to make founders find people who are simultaneously C level execs and engineers?
- jacquesm 4y agoJust a reminder: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- leaflets2 4y agoThat's not what GP matwood said. Instead, 1) find good engineers. And later 2) leaders will emerge from those. And, giving everyone in the company a bit soft skills & planning & management etc practice & courses can make that process work even better. Eg everyone reads Good Strategy, Bad Strategy. And everyone reads The Great CEO Within.