Inside observers have seen complete and utter degradation of this company through prolonged hiring, recruiting and promoting some of the worst talents (sorry I meant talentless jerks).
If you ever heard talkative employees, supervisors, managers and VPs talking without the paycheck goggles over your eyes, you may have quickly realized how brainwashed, talentless robot-like and deceiving some of these people could be. Things jerks will do for a fat paycheck! Just look for what some execs are talking about in the public media even now – creating illusions and perhaps fraudulent pictures in terms for caring fo technology!
Do these current events really surprise you given how things were evolving for a decade plus? Everyone put a blind eye and cheered the same people and behavior when oil was $100 and everyone's pockets were greased.