Exactly. Why change a process when you can be a superstar by ignoring it?

Fuck the customers, fuck the employees, fuck the investors. My ego is more important than any of this.

Unless you're at a very small company, CTOs set technical vision, choose high level tooling strategy and outline engineering culture in broad strokes, but the nitty gritty of process will be from an engineering director or other role below the CTO. The CTO will probably provide feedback if needed, but they're not in the weeds and won't be able to see problems unless they're raised.

Well if they dont and you have to demonstrate that again and again, then you know what to do and hopefully have the power to do it.

> Besides, the process doesn't come from the middle management, it originates from the top, usually the CTO.

Not ime