in a company this dysfunctional, you face new challenges
imagine the scenario:
the company provides a product that is the only game in town (on a global basis. think: CIA)
they are new to software dev. they have hundreds of ***kissers from poor foreign countries willing to put up with anything to work for them.
best of luck escalating anything into a cloud of incompetence where clueless people earn megabucks.
i didn't leave because i am a wuss. i have seen bad and i have seen worse. this was like a hallucination brought on by drinking motor oil.