I am thoroughly convinced of this.
My crew and I are all on together maybe once or twice a week. We all have real lives to deal with, so all of us playing together is a real luxury that we all cherish. We all actually did our first CEO run together eariler in the week, and even though we were still getting used to the process/strategies, we won
EVERY TIME THAT I HAVE GONE INTO THE CEO WITH RANDOMS, I HAVE DIED. This battle is way too difficult to do without proper communication or knowledge of the battle. At this early stage of BBHQ's introduction to TT, in which most people still don't know what they are doing in the CEO, I'll pass on going in with randoms.
You REALLY have to have SFs that are on ALL THE TIME in order to progress along the bossbot suit ranks at any kind of pace. The CEO is actually rather quite fun. Problems occur, however, when there are randoms involved, particularly since bbhq is still new. My suggestion for any hope of a garuanteed win? Make sure you have 7 secret, or really good, friends. Otherwise you are running a terrible risk.