An AI may be making an ultimately random choice (prove the CEO isn't) but it's actual options are weighted on statistical grounds from much wider sources of data than a human can knowingly handle.
I say knowingly because actually the sum total of accumulated info for just a month or two of human activity eclipses even today's LLM.
And the CEO decisions are frequently flawed because there's a strong filter of the information from below.
Perhaps a crowd sourced (employee sourced) decision making process would be best with the wisdom of crowds.
It strikes me that software has become a bit like law and accounting used to be. "We had to suffer and so must you". Making it pointlessly hard to keep people out.
Rather than dealing with people on real problems.
I'm currently getting interviews. For work that I know from having done it for twenty years that coding is only a small subset of. But the emphasis is far more on coding than application of experience gained to overcoming similar problems quicker the second, third or fourth times I'd be working them.
It's sad. I'll certainly just say no to leetcode for the kind of engineering I'm looking for. Rather go do some (paid) gardening.