Management - Those at the VP and above have seemingly unlimited power and those below them don't have any power to change how things are.
On-Call - unless you are hourly you will get nothing for oncall no matter how many alerts/fires you put out. After hours work is expected as "part of the job" so don't expect anything additional
Tech debt that's preparing to avalanche and daily changing priorities from management - expect to work 10 hours and act in 5 roles to barely make progress on the leaderships hyper involvement in your projects when the scope changes
Worst of small business and enterprise - wear all the hats of small business with slow responsiveness
Pay disparity - someone with 10 years in this role is getting paid half as much as a contractor turned employee in the same role.
Lack of stability - teams are created and cannibalized by leadership due to turnover and layoffs.
Mergers and acquisitions - all the above applies to Nolan Transportation Group(NTG) as well but these companies took the most toxic parts of each other when they merged