There is this famous quote from I think Steve Jobs. It says that once you are VP or CT* there are no excuses for things going wrong in your department. You are the responsible person.
Honestly yes. His investors have put money into the company as much because they believe in him as because they believe in the idea but at this point all the evidence is pointing to the idea being sustainable but Travis not being. They're hemorrhaging money fighting a losing war with regulators, Lyft, and the taxi monopoly but if they get self driving cars working (which is no guarantee) they are poised to be something incredible. Given all this it can easily be argued that Kalanick is doing more to harm Uber than to help it. If I'm an investor, or on the board, while I might not be ready to throw him out on his ear quite yet, it's absolutely a conversation I'm having.
Let's use some logic here, instead of quotes. An unqualified HR department that does not have proper procedures in place may not notify or relay all of the facts to other parties.
Using your logic, if I'm in charge of HR and simply sweep complaints under the rug, it's not my fault because other people should know what is going on.
No, it's your fault for sweeping it under the rug. But it's also the fault of people above you for allowing a culture and an out-of-control department where stuff gets swept under the rug.
No. I am saying that the CTO is responsible for knowing what is going on in his/her departments, full stop. "Knew or should have known". If the CTO doesn't know, it's the CTO's fault for not knowing, because it's the CTO's job to know.
Now, if you have one employee go off the rails, it's not the CTO's fault for knowing in advance that the one employee had problems. But a department-wide issue? Yeah, it's the CTO's job.
