[Foundation-l] Upcoming tech hiring: CTO position split

James Forrester james at jdforrester.org
Fri Aug 7 22:39:39 UTC 2009


2009/8/7 Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org>:
> On 8/7/09 3:06 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> It's not just about resumes, it's also about being taken seriously
>> when communicating with others. A "Head Software Architect" will
>> probably be taken more seriously than a "Senior Software Architect",
>> since the former shows you are the boss, that latter could be one of
>> many.
>
> Having many folks at that level is be a condition dearly to be wished for!

Well, in my experience it shows that the organisation's overall
architecture is poorly thought-out, and with insufficient resource
expenditure on correcting it (or, for that matter, stopping the rot
getting even worse). But yes. :-)

J.
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