Working at a company like this sounds like a nightmare hellscape and this guy should join a startup and enjoy life again.
Doesn't need to be a startup, just a normal company that doesn't have internal business speak that make it sound like a certain cult.
If you manage to offend 8 people above you in the org chart (without winning others to defend you), and you get fired solely because these people don't trust you, what's the case against that?
> 2.9 years
There isn't some weird RSU mis-incentive possible here, is there?
Probably not. Hiring is expensive and time consuming, as is training up new employees.