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So far my managers in engineering have been pretty good. I am what you would probably call a typical gen z "job hop for TC increase" bay area stereotype; I have had something like a dozen+ bosses so far and none were particularly terrible. The ones asking for impossible deadlines knew what they were asking for (and apologised for it, saying it came from higher up and was obviously dumb), I've written complete things then "oh we've changed direction", but nothing that would actually be insulting or anger management. This is just IC level though so I'm sure I'm missing out on some clown parties way higher up.

When I worked retail, almost every manager was an abomination. None would ever be willing to fight for you in any situation, most were abusive, and any time you told a customer some well documented policy and they screamed about it, your manager would be first in line to override policy and tell them how they were going to fire you for not putting the customer first. I had two supervisors punch holes through walls and one throw merchandise at employees. We were kids, but there was a sense of solidarity amongst the non-management that I don't think I frequently see in tech.