Yes. Back at my first salary job, the CTO of the company would occasionally jump into the code base to write some code when everyone else was busy . It was a

Yes. Back at my first salary job, the CTO of the company would occasionally jump into the code base to write some code when everyone else was busy . It was a very small startup, but seeing him do that motivated me to work harder. It was also just a very awesome thing for him to do, since he could have just said no I have to go pick up a pie this evening figure it out . Below him, the best manager I've ever had, was regularly writing large amounts of the core code base. In my opinion this is really good for team morale. If you want to call yourself a startup, this is how things should be done . When I think about it, I really would only like to work for startups with around 50 people or less, or mega corporations. I don't particularly like the quasi 1,000 person start up with 800 rules, and a lack of stable funding.