This environment sounds like hell. The company is pushing the entire process and overhead of management into every facet of employee life but not distributing c

This environment sounds like hell. The company is pushing the entire process and overhead of management into every facet of employee life but not distributing commensurate benefits to employees except a handful of lotto winner that serve more as performance set pieces than an actual compensation model. Because most of those things they're cutting: meetings, reports, OKRs, forecasting, planning? Those things exist to keep the company legible and transparent to its owners. These activities often feel pointless because other than feeding information upwards, they don't always serve a purpose. These toxic activities tend to cast a pall on the genuine hard work that line workers experience making a business actually function on a day-to-day basis. Those meetings, often critical for drawing out consensus, now are perceived as from the same pointless, poisonous well as the other activities. The net result is that only the most overwhelming personalities and cliques of employees can succeed, and that limited success becomes a 0 sum game. Cooperation gets branded as overhead. And it seems like now the company is so utterly devoid of leadership but so intensely addicted to a tall hierarchy that they're "crowdsourcing" their business plans to folks for the privilege of competing for those fixed-size bonuses more effectively? Other than play-pretend they're on Shark Tank and make sure beans stay counted, what do the executives and upper management there even do? You'd have to be pretty desperate or pretty close to a sociopath to enjoy that environment. It's a synthesis of the worst qualities of most corporate excess: overwhelming personal responsibility, arbitrary numeric axis of evaluation, constant performance justification, ruthless peer competition. But it's got no real benefits over a normal job other than a small handful of people getting performative payout. You can put in the effort to your utmost and circumstance can still deny you that payout even if the company succeeds.