The worst CTO I ever worked for thought he was the expert because he "cut his teeth on assembly" in college. He indirectly micro-managed everyone with a "goal

The worst CTO I ever worked for thought he was the expert because he "cut his teeth on assembly" in college. He indirectly micro-managed everyone with a "goal setting" farce. You had to submit very specific goals each quarter. He would then revise all of your goals for you, and give them back. They were a curated list of tasks that you had to accomplish. You would then be graded on those tasks and publicly shamed. He was so proud of his acronym "SPEED" and believed he was a great culture shaper. I've never worked in a more toxic environment, and never in a less productive one. We would have been 10x more productive if we didn't have a CTO at all.