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I've done nearly 300+ interviews with CTOs regarding their technical architectures over the last 8 years. AmA

• speedgoose 4y ago
  Have you considered publishing about it?
  • mbesto 4y ago
    (1) I'd love to (2) don't have the time right now (3) would have to be very non-specific due to NDA.
• rr888 4y ago
  Do CTOs really understand their systems, implementations and realities on the ground? I kinda feel at that level its about budgets and choosing platforms based on marketshare and industry. They aren't looking at alternative platforms more than once a decade.
  • mbesto 4y ago
    Heavily depends. I've seen CTOs with 4 devs and CTOs with 100 devs who don't even know what programming languages they use. Which frankly is a bit of a red flag. There are probably only 500 CTOs globally who operate at the level of just "budgets and choosing platforms" with another ~100k CTOs who really are de facto system architect. All depends on scale, size of biz, etc.
    • rr888 4y ago
      Yeah I guess I've only worked in those big 500 companies.