1. Leadership & Culture: A restructuring shifted reporting lines under a new leadership for Engineering, which fundamentally altered the culture for the worse. Management shifted to a "my way or the highway" mentality. Honest, constructive pushback on ownership and architecture is met with systematic sidelining.
2. Sidelining & Exclusion: Rather than managing transparently, leadership used promotions and further re-orgs to isolate managers—purposely excluding targeted leaders from critical technical sessions and rendering 1:1 meetings entirely useless and devoid of feedback.
3. Ethics & Lack of Empathy: The most alarming aspect of the culture is how vulnerable employees are treated. The leadership has developed a model that sidelines people of color.