[scabbycakes]

Newish CTO who puts technical concerns before common sense decisions in a small company.

Example: App is already crashing due to server load a month prior to black friday, his decision instead of optimizing things and finding the problems is to write unit tests for the month. Finally a mutiny happens by the senior team and everyone scrambles to fix and improve things a week before BF and we make it through by the skin of our teeth.

[cjwhite]

I agree the priorities in that situation sound misplaced, but I would not characterize that as putting technical concerns first. Fatal bugs are a technical concern.

[scabbycakes]

There are other things, that's just an example of the startlingly poor decision making skills.

[cjwhite]

That sounds annoying. I have the opposite problem, but I still sympathize.

Sometimes you get someone making really bad technical decisions so the direction forward looks good to upper management in the short term.

It's a hard balance to meet the needs of the technical requirements and the business requirements, but that's why it's their damn job!