It can be more than one thing at a time. But I would also say that that kind of toxic management is absolutely a part of "software engineering culture". How ma

It can be more than one thing at a time. But I would also say that that kind of toxic management is absolutely a part of "software engineering culture". How many horror stories do people on here have of managers who care nothing about the quality of the product, only meeting the deadline so they can get their bonus? "Software engineering culture" is way, way more than just "how write good code." It includes how we work, how we manage/are managed, how we advocate for ourselves, or fail to do so, and much more. It certainly includes the very common resistance to unions among programmers, and assuming this was caused by management pushing a known-bad product out the door, a strong union would have (at least potentially) been able to stand up to such demands.