Every place is different but what you are experiencing sounds somewhat typical of a large organization. It sounds like you would be much happier somewhere small

Every place is different but what you are experiencing sounds somewhat typical of a large organization. It sounds like you would be much happier somewhere smaller! Small startups tend to have the opposite sorts of problems, where each person needs to take on lots of responsibility but consequently everyone gets to have a big impact on the company and product. And as long as they practice code reviews for all changes you're guaranteed to get feedback even if sometimes that feedback is just "that's gross, don't do that". Anyway at a smaller startup it should be way less likely for there to be the kind of disconnect between dev and management as you are describing.