Around late spring of 2025, the messaging from above was pretty clear: prove your worth in this new age of AI or get off the ship. In a matter of a month or so, the entire character of the company went from supportive to dominating and threatening. All work was focused on a single project of shockingly low quality and poor design. Toxic, high ranking engineers openly denigrated the years-long, successful work of well respected engineering teams and verbally abused lower ranking engineers. I was insulted, had my ability and qualifications questioned. When I said something that they didn't like, they threatened to portray me negatively to leadership which interpreted as having my job threatened.
Leadership reconfigured everyone into cross-functional teams to work just on this new product. Then the rounds of layoffs and reorgs started and hasn't stopped. Everyone I talked to was miserable and people were leaving as soon as they got an offer from literally anywhere else.