Smartsheet

The position is fully remote, except for the annoying on-site event every quarter.

It was an okay place about a year ago, but there have been so many poor top-down decisions made, which keep piling up to make working here a pretty bad experience.

As a software engineer, I should feel comfortable putting across ideas, concerns and more, but at this point I really don't. It's very suffocating due to management style - note that I say management and not leadership, because the people above teams just impose without listening.

What makes the whole experience worse is that when I talk to people above engineering manager level in skip-level catchups, it becomes too obvious that they don't understand the technical implications of their decisions.

Learn to listen and get more educated on the technical side of things.

Maybe do some coding on your spare time too, to understand that not "everything is an if statement".