The Global CTO Survey 2023 Report

CTOs from across the globe reveal their latest insights and technology decisions in 2023

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THE GLOBAL CTO SURVEY 2023 REPORT

The report offers an unparalleled opportunity to gain in-depth insight into the challenges and operational strategies of your peers, enabling informed decisions for both you and your team.

260+ CTOs took the time to answer questions like:

Which AI technologies have you implemented?

Which technologies and trends do you think will become much more prominent in the next 2-4 years?

Identify areas for improvement and stay current with industry trends.

Which of the following do you consider the biggest cybersecurity threats?

Download the full report to find out what they said. Their responses may hold the key to your next strategic move.

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What information will you get from the report?

We’ll send you a detailed report with our findings about tech leaders, including:

What information will you get from this survey - part 1

Career path

Find out how the respondents became CTOs in the first place, and how long it took them to get there.

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Job satisfaction

Check how happy your fellow CTOs are with various aspects of their job.

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Security

See if you’re behind on adopting standard security measures.

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Leadership and hiring

Learn how other CTOs are growing their teams, including their hiring criteria, where they’re finding candidates, how they’re measuring performance, and their approach to remote work.

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Technical stack

Compare your tech stack and skills against other organizations, from programming languages through databases to containerization tools.

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Challenges and future trends

Get insights from hundreds of CTOs about what obstacles and opportunities they’re expecting to appear within the next few years.

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Training and self-development

Find out how CTOs are keeping their teams’ skills sharp, and how much time they’re devoting to self-growth.

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Some of last year’s findings

CTOs’ top concerns

Hiring has proved to be an issue in 2021: a year that has seen falling unemployment rates in the USA, UK, and EU since they peaked during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The hiring criteria CTOs use

What may come as more of a shock is that being a culture fit is deemed almost as necessary as technical skills.
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According to respondents, a good culture fit is rated more than twice as important as the number of years of experience a potential colleague has.

What programming technologies do your team use?

These days tech stack seems to be dictated more by the choice of a particular framework rather than a language. As JavaScript happens to be the most fragmented language, it seems natural that its frameworks and libraries play a central role in many companies’ tech stacks.

What courses have you completed?

If you’re a CTO and have completed a course on business strategy, DevOps, or data science—congratulations. You're ahead of a lot of your peers.

Do you have a dedicated cybersecurity team?

In total, only 25% of CTOs said that their organization has an internal dedicated security team. The number of companies that outsource is roughly divided in half.

Organizations with a headcount of at least 1000 are more likely to have an in-house team than to entrust their cybersecurity to an external company.