Why does Google not have a CTO?

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Director in Manufacturing, 1,001 - 5,000 employees

With technically trained leaders who have a better understanding of technology there is less reliance on peer C-level leaders or a CTO to ensure good technology decisions are made

Chair and Professor, Startup CTO in Education, 5,001 - 10,000 employees

A good question. Probably Google is not a tech company?

General Partner in Software, 2 - 10 employees

I guess Google decentralized that function across engineering org. Google Cloud had a CTO at some point but became less effective under a strong engineering culture/org there.

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