Big American corporations (and to lesser extent, other countries that try to mimic US corporate culture) operate in a particularly dysfunctional ways. There’s ample literature on it (moral mazes, bullshit jobs and five dysfunctions of a team are particularly good books on the topic). You’re lucky to not have been a victim of that system!
I have seen how some big european and asian companies operate and every dysfunction which you can point out in an american corp is usually way worse there. Plus there’s some additional ones due to local customs
Different dystopias, for sure. The average Japanese big corporation values work hours way more than the average American one, for instance. In my experience in Germany and Switzerland, the corporate moral maze is definitely not as bad as the American one. Pick your poison, I suppose
