The company has obviously grown without the influence of an effective CTO:
Since teams are expected to self-organize without a common set of standards, there's a great deal of variance in code quality, hiring process, stack, project management, and titular responsibilities among teams.
Little tooling, and what does exist is nonstandard - everything from pulling source to testing on staging or pushing updates to production is needlessly painful.
Weird restrictions on # of concurrent users accessing staging resources which bottleneck feature development.
Lots of intractable tech debt left over from bad architectural decisions in the past - slower velocity per engineer than many companies in the valley.
Devops and Corp IT are understaffed and lack automated tools for the volume of people they're bringing in.
Culture and advancement glorify tenure over aptitude: some senior people who should be in different roles.
