The Mismatch Between a Tech Lead and a CTO

A CTO should have the skills and experience to know that part of what their job is to clearly define people's roles. It sounds like they just kind of snuck up over time Which means the CTO didn't sit down and say here's what I expect you to do Exactly, and it's engineering management. Nobody knows what they're doing in engineering Once you take even a single footstep out of individual contributor land, it's totally the wild west.