It's hard to know how to apply the appropriate 'grain of salt' when reading things like this thread. I worked for a small (~40 person) start-up before where there was rampant religious discrimination and inappropriate workplace behavior by executives, even the head of HR who functioned more like a culture gatekeeper to enforce the particular overt religious cultural aspects of the founder.

When developers pushed back, they were called uncooperative, threatened with pay cuts or being fired, told they were not team players or were making too big a deal out of things. It was crazy!

In my experience, the times when management believe they are suffering from a problem developer are actually reflections of the management. There are exceptions like employee theft, issues with employees after they are terminated, and these things are often pretty black and white. But for all the other types of things that are more subjective about effort or cultural fit or finger pointing or tone or attitude or whatever, I tend to think most employees are absolutely not the problem, rather it is inept management and extremely poor culture mandates.