The culture totally collapsed after the pandemic hiring spree and the layoffs.
In most teams you have to fight for scope (even as a junior) and justify your existence, you never get a break and are always getting judged, you can say something that is not actually bad but another person will change the narrative to give you bad feedback and manage you out, it can also turn in always getting bad contradictory feedback no matter what, things like "you're not independent enough" if you ask something once.
Everyone is extremely busy doing working on pointless busy fake work to get points for their PSC (evaluation), there's no quality, not efficiency, everything gets wasted because next half you stop supporting the project or someone else rebuild it from scratch because it was not good enough because you were actually just playing with the metrics.
It's extremely stressful and not for the right reasons, it's psychological torture and gaslighting.
There are good teams and good managers, but most teams are bad and even if you find a good one chances are you would get reorged, since reorgs happen insanely often and just for the sake of showing "impact". Many non-sensical decisions get approved just for the sake of someone's PSC (justify impact).
