The company once had a very good edge over their product, technology stack and team. The overall office culture was great. It had perfect work life balance, work and plenty of employee welfare activities.
But now it is losing its edge because of Incompetent, Unprofessional, Unethical Local Management. There is very less work to do as there are no new projects. Just maintenance/defect fixing work. Those who used to drive and bring in new technologies are gone/fired. The donkeys are given role of leading technology who have nothing to do with technology.
Yet the Flexibility has been taken off. WFH is reduced from 3 to 1 per month. Whether you have work or not you have to be in office in fixed timelines. You have to be on your seat all the time. Your in/out punching will be monitored every time. The local management spy on employees. The laptops are remotely monitored, videos of employees are taken. Most likely the friendly guy talking to you is a sycophant spying on you. It feels like you are fixed time contractual worker or in a prison. Everything is happening except good technical work and the local management has no intent or competency to drive the team be it technical or management. All the time it thinks of is personal grudges, travels and who to fire next.
Now there is only one culture....Sycophant Culture. Everyone is competing to be biggest sycophant. Truely said, the atmosphere you build around is a reflection of yourself.
