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Check out "No Rules Rules" by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer. If you can't leave (constructive) feedback/criticism to your CEO, you're working at a sick company.

Yes, a high school intern did that actually - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20490964

Have worked in a couple of jobs where the CEO or CTO still raised PRs, and they were really treated no differently. There was definitely a lot of code style changes requested, because as you say that knowledge might be out-of-date.

I suspect it might be cultural - I've definitely got the impression that in some countries CEOs see themselves as "gods" who should not be questioned by the minions.