"What changed?
Growth slowed. When companies transition from high growth to slow growth or begin shrinking it isn’t just a small change, it needs a fundamentally different approach to management and the culture of the company...Adding headcount and budget every year covers up all kind of problems, it brings a flexibility to operations that becomes part of the culture."
https://adrianco.medium.com/signs-that-its-time-to-leave-a-company-5f8759ad018e