I previously worked at a large enterprise software company. The CTO is smart, but talks expletives all the times and is not approachable beyond their inner circle. The people around the CTO effectively control the access and because of their attitude no one dares to challenge or propose anything newer than whatever exists.
Everyone used to hate the work in private conversations. But the CTO effective chose to stay on their own island, only communicate with people around them. There was never a two-way conversation from real engineers to the CTO.
And ya, hackathons used to happen all the time with a lot of "assertion" about innovation, but nothing ever gets shipped from the hacks. It's just to satisfy the engineers so they feel excited about working on something new and receive a token gift card.
Everyone used to hate the work in private conversations. But the CTO effective chose to stay on their own island, only communicate with people around them. There was never a two-way conversation from real engineers to the CTO.
And ya, hackathons used to happen all the time with a lot of "assertion" about innovation, but nothing ever gets shipped from the hacks. It's just to satisfy the engineers so they feel excited about working on something new and receive a token gift card.