* Salary was way below market.
* Too many meetings.
* Middle management was too busy and ineffective.
* Barren and disorganized Jira, projects were managed by word of mouth.
* Culture of rude/bullying behavior was promoted, made extra degrading because it was perpetuated by people who had no life outside the company.
* Awful technical debt. I was surprised we weren't still using magnetic tapes.
* Outdated software architecture, little testing, no code reviews.
* Inconsistent workload. Working long hours one day, have almost nothing to do the next.
* No bug tracking tools, not enough dashboards, no visibility into what's happening.
* Tons of repeated effort, so many projects could be consolidated.
* And much, much more!