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“Industry” is much larger and diverse than academia. Abuse exists but is usually easier to escape from.

That said, managers embarrassing and ignoring employees could be described as widespread. Not necessarily high in distribution nor intensity, but common enough that engineer culture usually is lukewarm at best regarding pointy hair bosses, sales people, project managers and so on.

Then, Hanlon’s razor to the rescue, that’s mostly out of ignorance than malice.