There’s definitely plenty of self indulgent gold plating engineers out there. And cv driven development and mortgage driven development.
Whilst I somewhat agree with the op I think it’s as much a hiring / resourcing issue. Hiring managers often want experts in the tech stack and domain and overlook mastery of similarly complex topics as a good proxy for ability to pick up whatever their specifics are. And the expectation of that person also having enough generalist knowledge to do gui, qa & infra as well as the rest of the engineering process.
In that regard as cto are you part of the problem or aiming to be part of the solution ?
Whilst I somewhat agree with the op I think it’s as much a hiring / resourcing issue. Hiring managers often want experts in the tech stack and domain and overlook mastery of similarly complex topics as a good proxy for ability to pick up whatever their specifics are. And the expectation of that person also having enough generalist knowledge to do gui, qa & infra as well as the rest of the engineering process.
In that regard as cto are you part of the problem or aiming to be part of the solution ?