I appreciate your honesty, but I definitely would not want to work in a company where that was the prevailing attitude, nor would I hire someone who took that a

I appreciate your honesty, but I definitely would not want to work in a company where that was the prevailing attitude, nor would I hire someone who took that as their MO. It's a pragmatic policy for each individual, but it also leads to endless passing of the buck. "What can I do, I'm just a dev, the team lead should figure it out" turns into: "what can I do, I'm just team lead, the department head should figure it out" turns into: "what can I do, I'm just the department head, the CTO/CEO should figure it out" which finally ends with: "I'm just the CEO, these decisions should be made by the department heads and team leads because they have a better understanding of the problem." Responsibility gets passed from the bottom to the top back down to the bottom, where the process repeats itself. Taken to its logical conclusion, everyone has a perfect rationalization for why all decisions are either too general or too specific for them to make. The net result is that decisions still get made, but no one questions them or defends them or even knows where they came from, because no one perceives them as a choice they had any influence over.