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Not to worry, McAfee CTO was not actually in charge of technology https://archive.is/20240724213623/https://www.barrons.com/articles/crowdstrike-week-reckoning
by valicord 2y ago
Not to worry, McAfee CTO was not actually in charge of technology
https://archive.is/20240724213623/https://www.barrons.com/articles/crowdstrike-week-reckoning-stock-incident-ed00a543#selection-541.93-541.188:~:text=George%20was%20there%20as%20a%20sales%2Dfacing%20CTO%2C%20not%20in%20charge%20of%20engineering%2C%20technology%2C%20or%20operations https://archive.is/20240724213623/https://www.barrons.com/ar...
- hinkley 2y agoThe fish rots from the head. Also what the fuck is a sales-facing CTO??
- cratermoon 2y agoI'm suspicious of CrowdStrike now. If we rip the cover off would we find that it's little more than a reskin of McAfee?
- Natsu 2y agoMcAfee the company or the person? Because John McAfee was pretty out there... https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mcafee-tweet-said-his-suicide-would-him-being-whackd-2021-6?op=1 https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mcafee-tweet-said-his-s...
- cratermoon 2y agoMcAfee antivirus the product
- graycat 2y agoThe Internet is able to transmit odors of rotting flesh???? Recently ordered an HP laptop for some light work (not my startup), and when placing the order said don't include McAfee, that "I don't trust them", all just from some odor! CloudStrike runs in kernel mode? No wonder there are problems; kernel mode sounds like more of a threat than a protection. Sooooo, for my Web server(s), McAfee and CloudStrike are issues I get to ignore. Problems avoided and time, money, energy saved!! Simple.
- hinkley 2y agoSometimes it’s good to take a little break after working for a company that ended up not representing your values. I’m on #2 now and it’s been great. It’s like a breakup. “What was I thinking?” Of course if it is representing your values and your values are purely mercenary, it’s really not going to change anything.
- Terr_ 2y ago> a sales-facing CTO Is that what happens when a company has so many Sales Engineers that they become a parallel department from regular Engineering?
- red-iron-pine 2y agothe Sales Engineers are actually engineers. I'm assuming this is more Account Executives and marketing
- Wytwwww 2y agoI assume T stands for [Sales and Marketing]Technology. Which makes perfect sense because these are their core departments that the whole company is dependant on. The product itself is a secondary cost-center, probably less important than even accounting.
- kermatt 2y ago> Also what the fuck is a sales-facing CTO?? Perhaps of a symptom of the "Everyone is in sales" brain damage so pervasive in companies now.
- aiisjustanif 2y agoI have noticed this too at my company, do we have any web articles or other references to this being a growing trend?
- joshstr 2y agoHave seen region-specific Field CTO roles partner with GTM teams to co-sell with customers. Product and role domain expertise without the organizational technology responsibility.
- red-iron-pine 2y agolol what? a region-specific field CTO is a long way of saying "VP"
- hinkley 2y agoSenior VP! Microsoft prints them like money.