This company is run off nepotism. The company came up as a startup and grew to a really large scale during COVID years.
The people that started during that time promoted themselves to high ranks but very few of them have any skills to justify that.
After promoting themselves, they made a bunch of insane policies to make it impossible to grow as newer hires, The ladder is non-existant for IC engineers, just 3 rungs before you hit a dead-end where the next promotion is an exclusive club of "5%" of the company and don't expect to get to this title. Most of the people at the Staff+ level are just loud obnoxious and information hoarders that make themselves seem special but are not anymore or less talented than people who were hired externally who actually probably have more experience and knowledge.
The CTO rants and raves about how lazy every engineer in the company is for complaining about burnout and acts like he has any experience as an IC every chance he gets, with vague anecdotes about how "When I was an IC...I would walk 7 miles back and forth in the snow to deliver" that couldn't possibly be true because he has spent less than 1 year as an IC before being promoted to Senior leadership when the company was still small. They make unsustainable demands each quarter while also struggling with an ADHD leadership that can't decide what they actually want and changing priorities on a whim.
Also, the new CPO has been slowly cutting back benefits, no more Unlimited PTO but they are also not doing accrued vacation so they can still not payout when you leave. The removed the 5 year anniversary bonus. They doubled health insurance costs.
