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Poor, biased, and aggressive management which uses withholding information and lack of transparency as opposed to empowering engineers. Management makes poor decisions that can't be backed up and gets defensive when you ask for more information. Aggressive management is promoted rather than discouraged.

Lack of strategy which is based on the highest-paid person's opinion rather than an organized, collaborative, data-driven process. As a result, these decisions without explanations seem biased. Engineers need to participate in hours of business review meetings that are a forum for whomever is most aggressive.

Company decisions are similar: requiring everyone to go into the office with no more communication than, "we miss seeing your faces." DEI efforts are as minimal as required, and also not transparent. Reports which took years to see will state only positives, like the whole company is diverse, but not that the engineering department has gotten considerably less diverse and with more turnover. The HR/People team doesn't aim to be partners for employees and is not transparent on its initiatives, goals, or process.

Hold yourselves to the same review standards on decisions that you require of people on your team.

Treat the people on your team as smart individuals that you hired, instead of being condescending and dismissive.

Treat DEI as a company goal that provides value that everyone can participate in, rather than a begrudging task.

Listen to feedback and consider it, rather than being automatically defensive.

Treat aggressive communication as a con instead of a pro.

Have good reasons, empathetic decisions, and data to back up requiring everyone to be in the office.