[yakshaving_jgt]

There are competent CTOs who are not above getting their hands dirty, and there are career politician type CTOs who have no discernible skills beyond projecting an illusion of technical brilliance.

I've seen plenty of both, and I'm sure everything in between exists too.

[gedy]

> career politician type CTOs

Good description; that's been the my majority of companies unfortunately.

[smrtinsert]

How about product only CTOs who quietly hate engineers because they don't know what they do, and they constantly feel threatened