[groundzeros2015]

I can’t believe how many small to mid size companies are being destroyed by bad decisions like this.

A friend’s company fired all EMs and have engineers reporting to product managers. They aren’t allowed to do refactors because the CTO believes the AI doesn’t need organized code.

[aerhardt]

How do people like that ascend to CTO?

[59nadir]

CTO is in many cases a rank more than a role, and given out accordingly. You should never take someone seriously based on their rank alone, much less a CTO.

[pbowyer]

The Peter Principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

[philpem]

Or more cynically they reach their level of competence, go one level further and stay there to keep them from ruining the productivity of the people doing the work...