Let's start with the CEO. This is someone who is openly obsessed with the company's Glassdoor rating — to the point of pressuring employees to post positive reviews and becoming visibly agitated when negative ones appear. Read that again. The response to a bad review is not to fix what caused it. It's to bury it. That tells you everything you need to know about leadership's relationship with accountability.
The micromanagement is relentless. There is no trust extended to the technical team, no autonomy, and no sense that the people doing the actual work are valued in any meaningful way. Hard work goes unacknowledged. Contributions disappear into a void. People are grinding — genuinely grinding — with no goals, no direction, and no feedback that amounts to anything actionable.
Transparency is not just absent here, it's actively weaponized. Information is withheld deliberately, and that withholding is used to keep employees off balance and dependent. There is no clarity on strategy, priorities, or where the company is actually headed. You will work hard and have no idea if it matters or why.
The broken promises are real and documented. Bonuses that were committed to were never paid. That's not a budget issue, that's a character issue.
There is zero genuine investment in people. No structured growth, no recognition, no culture of any kind that would make a talented engineer want to stay. The technical team works hard in a vacuum while leadership operates with a level of secrecy that breeds anxiety, distrust, and eventually exodus.
The turnover is not a coincidence. When you treat people as replaceable parts while dangling a mission they believe in, you burn through exactly the talent you can least afford to lose.