1) Micro Management by higher ups
2) A lot of "Yes Sir!" in the company. That is to say people tend to flatter their higher ups to be in their good graces.
3) CEO has an anger issue. He openly made fun and mocked higher up managers which then trickled down all the way to engineers
4) Long hours. Meetings past midnight.
5) No professionalism in the name of you're working at a startup.