I worked for a company where this happened twice in three years. I joined the company only to discover that the entire development team (sans one guy) had quit

I worked for a company where this happened twice in three years. I joined the company only to discover that the entire development team (sans one guy) had quit. We built up a new team, put up with an amazing amount of mismanagement, gas lighting, etc. For example: not only would they not make a spec, they wouldn't give us details about the features they wanted. We'd ask questions and they would be ignored. Then months later they'd chew us out for not building things they had never even mentioned wanting. And they installed an ex-navy seal who had 20 years in the military, a couple months n the business world and no understanding of (nor respect for) technology. He started finding people to hound out of the company and get fired-- because he always needed a scapegoat. We put up with this for a year, and then all of us, quit again. (well the one guy who was there from the beginning is still there, and a couple people who don't have easy mobility are still there, moistly because they had been on the job only a month or two.) And now they have a new team. Things have not improved at all... but so long as they can continue to hire people they will. Management has decided that the engineering teams that quit "sucked" and that they're the reason there are "problems" today (like not implementing features that were never requested, etc.) So long as they can keep hiring people, they're doing so., This while the glass door reviews are really terrible. Most people don't read glass door. So that's a lesson: Read glass door. Don't expect that even you and a bunch of others leaving will end the company.