I am always confused with the role of CTO. I don’t recall any company I worked at where it seemed the CTO had much of an impact. They were just thee, some of them were good at demos, but overall I just didn’t notice what they were doing.

▲

tossandthrow 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You could say the same about a cfo, if the company does not use financial engineering, etc.

The CTO role is to be invisible to the business, and do that by ensuring that the tech org is working

▲

anvuong 4 hours ago | parent [-]

At every companies I've worked at the CFO always has a large presence at every townhall, after all they are the one who is responsible for sending your paychecks on time. As for CTO, yeah it's a mixed bag in my experience, I mostly see them as just another layer between the CEO/COO and the principle engineers. Maybe that's exactly what they want though.

	▲	tossandthrow 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, probably in the US, where workers protection are mostly non existent - you need to be friends with the money!

▲

pm90 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If they've been invisible, they are doing their job right.