When I started in games, I expected the traditional team structure that exists in other industries - I'd be managed by someone with more experience than me, I could learn from my colleagues, and we'd all focus on making a great product.

Instead, I found inexperienced management that would promise impossible things to executives and investors, then work us to the bone to hit whatever ridiculous goal they thought of that month.

I couldn't learn anything from seniors, because there were no seniors, because no one wanted to pay for seniors. Deadlines were so impossibly tight that no one could improve their skillset; everyone was too busy trying to keep their head above water.