The company is hemorrhaging its specialist engineers and designers who have years of experience exploring the nuanced and essential technical challenges of this problem domain. The CEO has been targeting them for layoffs to clean the cap table. The quality is tanking and customers are complaining.
After 5 years with no raise my salary is below market. The CEO announced that nobody will ever again get a raise and instead the money set aside for raises would be offered as spot bonuses for completing extra projects on top of your usual work. This policy is insane but nobody will tell the CEO.
There is no team there is only the CEO and his spasmodic whims. Those people who are the "leadership team" who are not the CEO are worthless so far as I can tell, they exist solely to suckle the CEO and collect paychecks. The CEO will need to learn some skills since this company is going under soon!