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To have good technical leadership, the leaders need to be well versed of all parts of the stack used in the products. It is hard to find generalists that broad
by DanielHB 3y ago
To have good technical leadership, the leaders need to be well versed of all parts of the stack used in the products. It is hard to find generalists that broad given how much experience and education is necessary to reach high enough in each field
Heck even software-only companies have problems with this where the technical leadership is, for example, of backend background and they completely fail in frontend and data analysis fronts while having rock solid security.
- simonbarker87 3y agoHmmmm, sounds like my future niche then. I’ve got a PhD in electronics, developed a consumer product and ran a factory for 8 years to make it, been in dev for 5 years (on top of 10 years of coding) and am now a CTO for a software company. What even would that role be called? I suppose CTO but if a company that does HW and SW.
- aquariusDue 3y agoChief Technology Unicorn just doesn't have the same nice ring to it. Also there's T shaped skills and there's you with: _________ /|\ / | \ / | \ / | \ Not trying to be snarky, just trying to point out the rarity of such a skill set imo.
- contingencies 3y agoFYI that is the character for "don't" / "no" / "not" in Chinese.
- picture 3y agoUsually the right slash of 不 doesn't touch the rest, so I didn't notice it
- simonbarker87 3y agoLol, I quite like CTU but we are dangerously close to the Coding Ninja type job descriptions of the 2010s! No snark taken, I’ve got plenty of blind spots in my skills so those T stems should be a little shallower probably but I’ve been fortunate to cover a lot of ground in the last 15 years.
- jrexilius 3y agoThat is a rare combination skillset. And awesome for the company that needs it.
- mejutoco 3y agoI suggest founder/CEO as a title :)
- daelon 3y agoI have a similar (but less impressive) background, and I like to joke that I'm a "full spectrum" SWE.