Management hyperfixates on employees to an unnerving extent. If you don't have perfect performance or social skills, you're going to be scrutinized until they push you out. The management style is shallow at best, and the machiavellian 'performance' review structure will be leveraged against whoever they deem unfit, unless they like you of course. They're constantly building paper trails as ammo to contest unemployment claims, keeping their state unemployment insurance contributions low. The founders are obsessed with ever-increasing margins by being stingy, and it shows. Despite labor being an insignificant portion of their overhead costs, they lament their workers for not being infinitely efficient because it means they'll eventually have to pay another person to keep up with the workload. Loopy makes more than enough already, but those in charge are obessed with squeezing maximum profit out of a minimal lean staff pool (except for the founders, of course). They'll focus on saving maybe $200k in employment yearly overhead instead of dedicating that effort towards new/different products to increase revenue