It's also a bit of a drag on your fellow developers. If I'm a senior dev working on my tasklist, and we hire a junior dev who goes off to go see what marketing's doing instead of working on his tasklist, it would really start to get me pissed off. It doesn't matter that he might be a superstar and knocking off his tasks in 25% of the estimated time, what matters is that the department that we're both in has things that need doing, and by buggering off to talk with the CTO he's not helping get those things done.
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It's also a bit of a drag on your fellow developers. If I'm a senior dev working on my tasklist, and we hire a junior dev who goes off to go see what marketing's doing instead of working on his tasklist, it would really start to get me pissed off. It doesn't matter that he might be a superstar and knocking off his tasks in 25% of the estimated time, what matters is that the department that we're both in has things that need doing, and by buggering off to talk with the CTO he's not helping get those things done.