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No offence but you why are you calling the position CTO if he is expected to code and do sysadmin work. Why not simply call him/her an engineer?

Just curios on the choice of title.

do you seriously think a non-coder can effectively choose good coders?

do you really think a non-sysadmin can effectively choose good SysAdmins?

I mean, there is enough overlap between the fields that a good sysadmin can usually tell if a programmer is completely BSing, and a good progrogrammer (well, a C systems programmer) can usually tell if a SysAdmin is completely worthless, but I wouldn't trust anyone who was 'pure management' to detect either.

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