- Your compensation, title, and performance review are based on everything BUT your performance. You need to demonstrate loyalty to the toxic management team in order to get recognition in this company. The best indicator of whether you're fit for a promotion is if you've worked with C-level at previous companies.
- Management makes decisions based on gut feeling, confirmation bias, and totally skewed perceptions of reality. They ignore hard data and facts, and will actually punish you for bringing them forward. Because if you make decisions based on data, then you're obviously not loyal to them.
- No real technical leadership. The best engineers problem solve based on analysis, and they have all been either pushed out or have quit because they have no way of making a real impact. The company is left with either people who will listen to anyone, or political players who just try to accumulate more power.
- "Hypergrowth" killed the culture and productivity of the company (really, it's hard to find a team that has produced real value in the past year), but saved management. They replaced all the quality employees with brand new sheep whose roles are completely undefined and who will listen to anything they say.
