Not trusting employees to make good decisions is a big one where I'm working at the moment. Everything we do comes from the top down often by people who don't r

Not trusting employees to make good decisions is a big one where I'm working at the moment. Everything we do comes from the top down often by people who don't really understand software. For example, we have an extremely outdated code base that's full of security and performance issues which we can't fix because doing so "isn't MVP". Unless something becomes a critical issue such as a server going down we're effectively not allowed to fix anything. We also add to tech debt constantly because we always have to build features in the quickest dirtiest way possible, again because "MVP". Thankfully I'm a contractor and I doubt I'll be there much longer. While this is one of the worst examples I've known of a company that doesn't trust it's engineers enough to build things the best way, it is quite a common pattern I've noticed among larger companies which aren't primarily software companies.