Quality system is extremely convoluted and unorganized, it makes it really difficult to know what needs to be done. Unusually high turnover, this makes project progress come to a crawl especially when there's people constantly trying to learn their own roles so it becomes a situation where the blind leads the blind. High turnover also means very limited or downright no advancement opportunities since new managers have no idea on the work you did before they joined organization. The entire time I was there, none of my quality team members were promoted.
Excessive paperwork for defects related to products released to the market, quality is in charge of this and the entire team was swamped with these paperworks taking priority over project work.
Ineffective quality leadership, managers was more of a delegator and had no real power over their own teams. They were simply relaying the instructions given by their leadership. My manager was a micromanager and downright hostile to my team and other people.