Tobi isn't a sociopath. The people he puts at the top aren't sociopaths. They're genuinely nice people, trying their best, and trying to do their best for everyone despite hard situations.
It truly is just a book club disguised as a publicly traded company.
Maybe the dev side is better but my impression is that the design side has no ownership and is driven primarily by the loudest opinion rather than any sort of data or testing. And when you have five layers of approvals where people pick on the easiest and least important aspects that ends up being a very slow design by committee. The end result of this culture is very low efficiency and consistently mediocre outcomes.
The people who thrive in their culture appear to be the loudest and most aggressive.
In all seriousness, I would separate the fact the top executives are good people, with the fact (at least in the U.S) they have become notorious low ballers for top engineers