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How do you think this would scale if you grew to 100 employees? If the same person is with you then they would be the person with the most knowledge of the code
by jiggy2011 13y ago
How do you think this would scale if you grew to 100 employees? If the same person is with you then they would be the person with the most knowledge of the codebase and the business itself, so it would seem natural that newer employees would go to this person for guidance and defer to them for higher level decisions.
Would it still make sense to pay them as much to just write code as it would for them to take on a more decision making role?
- hrktb 13y agoNot a CTO, but having good knowledge of the business and assisting fellow workers can be put in other terms than just 'manager'. It can mean architect, lead developper, technical lead, new recruit's mentor or technical instructor. The choices are endless, and the title and actual work can be fitted to the person.
- jiggy2011 13y agoThat's true, you can change the title but you still get to a point where you're "managing" things more than "doing" thing.
- chris_mahan 13y agoOur group has 40 people. We're part of a 1200 people group, which is part of a 37,000 people group, which is part of a 240,000 people group. now imagine no managers. Yeah, that's not going to work.