Senior management has no idea what they're doing or why. It feels more like being a member of a cult than a productive employee when every single encounter with leadership above my immediate supervisor boils down to them preaching the latest company buzzwords and sales pitches to the grunts and refusing to answer questions or concerns.
Everything feels like a bad joke. All internal training is focused on how to use generative AI in the most basic way possible, they do layoffs every single month (while keeping us in a hiring freeze for years and years on end), and they threaten not to promote us in order to try and trick us into giving up remote work (the best perk remaining), even though the super-majority of employees will never see a promotion of any kind by design. Actual numbers of promotions from within are in the single-digit percentages. Promotion opportunities happen once every year or two and have dozens to hundreds of candidates vying for that one position.
Additionally, senior management has an open and obvious perception of employees as children. To the point that they will talk about example employee concerns as, "And then Little Johnny said this, and Little Suzy thought that, and-"
