> Companies I’ve worked at that sucked had awful internal communication. It was all very friendly, but it was all platitudes and euphemisms, dumpster fire technology implementation.

Honestly, I think part of the problem is people going around talking so much about soft skills and how people don't like to be treated harshly that they've forgotten you need hard skills and nearly every profession where they need real leadership you get told where you screwed up and how to fix it. Literally, at the company I work for, people screw up and all you hear about is positive things