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

Brion Vibber brion at wikimedia.org
Fri Aug 7 22:42:53 UTC 2009


On 8/7/09 3:39 PM, James Forrester wrote:
> 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. :-)

Well ideally it would be because we really do have that much work to 
do... ;)

-- brion




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