The whole thing hinges on this unspoken rule where if you point out something broken you're somehow the problem, and I watched that destroy people's willingness to even try speaking up. They talk constantly about collaboration and being open but there's zero actual response when you bring stuff up — it just gets filed away like you never said anything, and everyone knew it, which is almost worse than straight-up telling you to shut up. Management doesn't want to fix problems, they want problems to not exist, which creates this awful gap between what's actually happening and what they're pretending is happening. It's not one big dramatic failure, it's more like a slow leak where people just gradually accept that nothing's going to change so why bother, and that becomes the actual culture even though nobody wants to admit it. By the end it felt like the whole place was running on fumes with people who'd given up, including me, and I realized I was staying way too long hoping things would shift when they clearly weren't going to.