This is exactly what happen in my previous company. The story goes like this: * one of engineers started sugarcoating his reports to look better than others

This is exactly what happen in my previous company. The story goes like this: * one of engineers started sugarcoating his reports to look better than others * then other engineers notice that they now look bad in eyes of the manager because they were blunt in then assessments, so they started sugarcoating their reports * quickly the point of these reports is lost (they become garbage with no useful information about problems, challenges, what is actually done, etc.)