The CEO, though smart and visionary, seems to enjoy gleefully insulting people--either behind their backs or to their face--and in more demeaning and classless ways than I've heard of even in fiction. Overall the environment is characterized by changing winds and a level of irrationality and disregard for people that is rather astonishing. People who do well here get good at taking the proverbial beatings and then turning a blind eye to how others are being treated, or even worse--participating by becoming bullies themselves. Even the HR department is powerless and the CEO publicly acknowledges and laughs when he says he's about to do or say something he knows HR won't support, but he does it anyway.
