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CTO / VP of engineering at small VC-backed companies that employ less than 50 engineers. My current CTO spends most of his time spamming ChatGPT-related stuff,
by mkl95 3y ago
CTO / VP of engineering at small VC-backed companies that employ less than 50 engineers. My current CTO spends most of his time spamming ChatGPT-related stuff, and discussing "key objectives" he replaces every few months, thus having next to no accountability. It was the same at my previous job.
- javier2 3y agoThis is my CEO.
- rcurry 3y agoOh lord, I ended up working at a place that had one of those. He would always carry this huge stack of old-school fan folded green and white dot matrix printer paper to prove his bona fides and would spend every meeting furiously scribbling circles and boxes on it and then throwing it away after. His catch phrase (in like 2013) was “I could probably whip together an AI solution for this but I’m too busy, you guys just let me know when you have some regular solution for me to review.”
- lowercased 3y ago> huge stack of old-school fan folded green and white dot matrix printer paper My mom just got rid of 2 unopened cases of the stuff sitting in her basement from the late 80s.
- karmakaze 3y agoI love that green-and-white paper, especially the right margin part that sometimes has the tear-off perforations. Makes for great notes.
- thecleaner 3y agoThe quality of talent at VC backed businesses could actually be quite abyssmal. I have even companies where directors of entire orgs never worked as an engineer and it's laughable how little some of these people actually know about the field.
- athesyn 3y agoWell, as they say it's about who you know not what you know.
- thecleaner 3y agoTrue that. Sadly not much progress has been made to get rid of that status quo.
- refjrefjerof 3y agoIts not even that. Look at the job description for any managerial position in programming and they almost never ask for programming experience. Imagine two cvs. One has 10 years of experience programming and 2 "managing" a team of software devs. The other 10 years of experience "managing" and knows nothing about programming. Guess who they would hire? This is because the system is top down. More often than not top directors are old and understand nothing about technology. So they see engineers as threatening and scary and they prefer to hire people they "understand". Most people managing a software developer team can't read code so everything eventually becomes super political because the manager is guided by impressions and things like the name of the PR ans such. Its like hiring a blind man to supervise a group of painters. Then managers feel super insecure because they don't understand things very well even if they try with metaphors. Insecure managers tend to be very aggressive and toxic This is such a sad industry.