TLDR; the nail that sticks out gets hammered down or pushed out, leadership is incredibly toxic and cliquey, and employees are not compensated fairly or transparently for their time - whether in wages, bonuses or promotions.
Once you enter the leadership range you meet individuals who have the mindset of "if youre not crunching over 10 hours a week then you aren't doing the minimum expected of you". All of leadership says one thing and then acts completely different - it's a very toxic environment of if you don't do exactly what I want (even if its unreasonable and even if its not what I said to do) then you're bad at your job.
Employees are also underpaid and compensation is a very taboo discussion topic. You are promised bonuses and then the amounts are decided by some mysterious process you don't get to know and promotions are the exact same. Even when hitting their guide for promotion exactly for extensive periods, you are told you are in line for a promotion and then a year later nothing has changed.
Promotions and opportunities are based off of 2 things.
First: who knows who and since the majority of leadership have all been working together for 15+ years, it becomes very cliquey.
Second: who is willing to be walked over and burned out entirely just to receive the bare minimum. Overtime is expected and work-life balance does not exist. It was very clear that making boundaries is unacceptable and even if everyone agrees there are unreasonable expectations - they will still be the baseline anyways.
