as someone who headed the dev team in a startup where the ceo did this repeatedly, i have to say it's a huge mistake. it was very demoralising to the entire eng

as someone who headed the dev team in a startup where the ceo did this repeatedly, i have to say it's a huge mistake. it was very demoralising to the entire engineering side of the company; we felt that we were never given a chance to deliver a properly working product because we were always working round the clock and frantically adding half-baked features that had been used to close a sale.