- Some of the most absurdly toxic HR policies you've ever heard of. Sick time was taken was treated like you slapped every HR persons mother in the mouth. You would be put on notice for as little a 3 days of sick time.
- Serious issues with inter-office politics with low performers from non-dev departments blatantly sucking up to HR/management and getting away with producing poor results
- Developers get blamed for everything by the non-dev departments
- Willful ignorance of market realities. RTO, project shifts, and industry trends were often snap decisions that were made opaquely and folks were expected to roll with it without question.
- A lot of work was being exported to other offices, at the cost of quality and timeliness and it was starting to show