This company desperately needs new leadership far more than it needs to keep churning through employees. The CEO and upper management create a deeply toxic environment ruled by fear, micromanagement, and petty punishment instead of actual guidance or trust.
Leadership feels completely lost — issuing vague, unrealistic demands like "leverage AI to do x10, x100, x1000 productivity" without any coherent plan. It's pure fantasy that demoralizes everyone and the word that is used for this non-sense is Velocity.
Instead of fostering any real "company spirit," management chooses punitive tactics: silently stripping away perks the moment someone falls out of favor, or worse, smiling and acting friendly in meetings/public channels while firing off unprofessional, vicious, and completely unjustified private messages tearing people down. It's two-faced cowardice at its worst — rude, unfair, and deeply personal attacks that achieve nothing except breeding resentment and driving good people out.
Aiming for high standards is one thing; demanding impossible perfection in an unrealistic pressure cooker is another. Ruling by fear and constant criticism never builds great teams — it destroys them. Basic common sense: treat people with basic respect, focus on positives, give constructive feedback, and align everyone around shared realistic goals. Until leadership figures that out (or gets replaced), this place will continue hemorrhaging talent and under-delivering on its big AI dreams.
Save yourself the stress — look elsewhere.