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Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm

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Re: Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm

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I know NOTHING about Dickinson other than this article and the linked articles, but something that really bothers me about tech is how people like him are able to even become CTO/CEO/CXO at all, let alone continue to get jobs at that level!

I've worked with my share of C level folk who are borderline sociopathic and have the wonderful combination of NOT being successful at that level either. It astounds me that people can basically continue to con their way around companies at the upper levels.

/rant

Re: Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm

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A side point, does Business Insider do original reporting, or do they just aggregate? I stopped reading them after I found it was just slideshows of bullet points pulled from somewhere else.

They do original reporting too, e.g. the extensively-researched http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-biography-2013-...

Re: Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm

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I know NOTHING about Dickinson other than this article and the linked articles, but something that really bothers me about tech is how people like him are able to even become CTO/CEO/CXO at all, let alone continue to get jobs at that level! I've worked with my share of C level folk who are borderline sociopathic and have the wonderful combination of NOT being successful at that level either. It astounds me that peopl…

Most devs I've met will just endlessly put up with this shit.

They'll also put up with:

    - long hours
    - far less than optimal physical workspaces
    - being left in the dark about what's going on in the company from a business perspective
    - all kinds of other crap
We need more devs who will speak up or at least who will support the ones who do speak up.

In far too many workplaces, it's still high school. Management is sometimes just a great way not to have to be accountable.

Pre-empt: Obviously there are great managers. I'm not talking about them.

Re: Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm

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I know NOTHING about Dickinson other than this article and the linked articles, but something that really bothers me about tech is how people like him are able to even become CTO/CEO/CXO at all, let alone continue to get jobs at that level! I've worked with my share of C level folk who are borderline sociopathic and have the wonderful combination of NOT being successful at that level either. It astounds me that peopl…

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Re: Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm

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I know NOTHING about Dickinson other than this article and the linked articles, but something that really bothers me about tech is how people like him are able to even become CTO/CEO/CXO at all, let alone continue to get jobs at that level! I've worked with my share of C level folk who are borderline sociopathic and have the wonderful combination of NOT being successful at that level either. It astounds me that peopl…

folks tend to self-select, great indicator about what values the people running/owning the company have that made the hire.
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