What's your experience with corporate internal processes been? Mine has been that they often exhibit an extreme disinterest in the judgment of external parties

What's your experience with corporate internal processes been? Mine has been that they often exhibit an extreme disinterest in the judgment of external parties that are not part of the internal process. Whether or not the external group accepts the paper was likely irrelevant to what would be internally seen as a breach of process. Generally "It worked out, everything's fine" is not a line that flies.