[larzang]

"In the real world...", "Nobody cares about how it works as long it works...", etc. This is a company where the top level management 1) thinks it knows best about everything, 2) micromanages everything, and 3) trusts absolutely no one to do their jobs. The CEO has a software degree but never really worked as a programmer professionally and is as obsessed with exclusively shipping features as any MBA, and it flows down from there.

When you hire subject-matter experts to do professional work and then refuse to believe that they might know more than you about how to do that work, you're going to have deep dysfunction.