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What's up with the continually revolving CTO chair? (under Executive)

• alephnerd 2mo ago
  Look at their salaries. Most are earning significantly less than what they would have earned in the for-profit sector for the same role in a significantly more stressful job. Compensation only started catching up in 2021-22 and even then is roughly comparable to what mid-career ICs now earn in the Bay, NYC, and Seattle.
  • ethbr1 2mo ago
    Salary aside, I'd still have assumed Wikimedia would be able to find a CTO who wouldn't jump ship the next year. Either they're really bad at picking, or the job is really bad.
    • alephnerd 2mo ago
      > Either they're really bad at picking, or the job is really bad Def the latter in the sense that it is a very high stress job with weak compensation and high risk of being targeted.