- legacy spaghetti code, no tech stack - no product vision - managers involved in every meeting, makes every decision without asking the team - actually there is no team at all - individual work is dominant rather than team work - remote work is discouraged - working from abroad depends on manager approval and has no standard approach - you have to fight for the details of your work, for example to understand what they exactly asking you to do. - no openness and direct feedback, people talk behind each other