The company is disillusioned, stale and old. It's got some really bright people working on lower positions, but the management are stuck in medieval times, turn a blind eye on each other's complete inability to do their jobs or each other's various mental problems. Instead they serve terrible abuse and bullying. Constant blame culture trickling down from the unstable CEO.
Also, ridiculous amount of work, that you get lured into by adding more and more tasks in chunks. As people leave they don't hire new ones, but instead distribute the work until you can't handle it, at which point you are blamed for it. Never positive feedback. A lot of shouting, abusive emails and blame from people who have been with the company for many years but actually do no work and instead go for work trips and party it out on company expense. How they are even still employed is beyond any comprehension, but then maybe one hand washes another...
CEO is self-absorbed and unpredictable - he can be nice one day and abusive about the same thing the next. Culture of blame, negative feedback and no creative progress. He brags to everyone who would hear about his new luxurious house, while the company sales are hardly breaking even and everyone is being beat up about it. The Chairman is a nice man with strong principles, but at the end of the day he allows his company to be run by a lunatic, so that tells you something too.
Some really great, smart and experienced employees and really lovely people are treated very badly in this company and the amount of work put on their backs is unbelievable. A lot of unpaid overtime and weekend work.
Managers often either drink or talk about drinking.
The customers consider the Sales Management to be not very clever. Which is true.
