This is for management culture: talk to your non-technical colleages (office manager, junior HR/admin etc) see how they are doing and how they are being treated

This is for management culture: talk to your non-technical colleages (office manager, junior HR/admin etc) see how they are doing and how they are being treated. To understand who someone is you need to see how they behave when they have nothing stopping them. Management will often have to treat engineering/specialist staff well because they have no choice, but they see support staff as more interchangeable and easier to replace. If they are being treated well, with respect etc, then that's because management have a good culture of valuing people. How management treats people it doesn't have to treat well tells you have they would treat you if they could. It's kind of the office version of the judging people based on how they treat waiting staff.