I assume management failure. Always makes me think of the documentary The Rubber Room, about the employees who can't be fired and won't quit. Our startup was a

I assume management failure. Always makes me think of the documentary The Rubber Room, about the employees who can't be fired and won't quit. Our startup was acqui-hired. We were assigned to the one VP who voted against hiring us. That VP then devoted themself to managing us out. Natch. We were literally prohibited from doing new work; support existing clients only. While requiring us to file time sheets and status reports (forcing us all to lie). One teammate really got into everything Clojure. Another went back to school to get his MBA. One teammate launched his next startup. He'd drive into work, remote back to his own computers, and code like a demon. He did quite well. I ran for office. I did less well. Our H1Bs, unfortunately, had a terrible time.