[dzonga]

the most unproductive places I have worked - ran according to what OP says and some of the comments etc. things that should take a week took 6 months due to bureacracy and everyone covering their ass and documenting details that don't matter. because after all - they have to account for your time.

the most productive n best place I worked at - whether the work was delivered after 5pm or at 11pm - as long as it was quality and delivered that's all that mattered.

thing is most software engineers don't think like "business-men" and just as Jay-z said "i'm a `business` man" not a "business-man". Be a business, then "business-man" then lastly a jira ticket pusher. Jira ticket pushers lives are miserable -- you get hazed over leetcode, you have to be pretend-nice to your fellow jira ticket pushers because of 360-review etc.

learn to look at other industries and see if they play those stupid games.