I have been at three different companies in my career and while I know that's not that many, I can only job hop so much and I have at this point simply given up on believing that a company with good culture can possibly exist. And if it does, it's only like 5 people tops and it'll break down if/when it tries to scale.

Every leader views his workers as replaceable feckless layabouts, front line managers are the designated whip-crackers with far too little actual power, middle managers are stressed out fear-driven creatures with both little real authority AND no whip to crack over the workers, and leaf-node workers are depressed tired cogs in a system that cares tremendously little about them and cares increasingly less about even pretending otherwise, especially post-layoffs.

And yet the software still needs to get written. I cope by just doing what I can, not trying to do anything the system doesn't support me in doing, and making as many friends as I can along the way. And putting my family first every single time.