Another aspect of culture: how one-sided the communication is. Yes, absolutely this! I worked at a company where the engineering culture was IMO very dysf

Another aspect of culture: how one-sided the communication is. Yes, absolutely this! I worked at a company where the engineering culture was IMO very dysfunctional. We had a lot of fulltime employees working in other countries. The company paid pretty well, and we were essentially paying US salaries to folks living in countries where that would be considered very, very good money. This, combined with the cultural issues you mentioned, resulted in management mistakenly thinking it was doing a good job -- privately, the foreign engineers shared my concerns, but they were not willing to "rock the boat" and bring those concerns to leadership.