Long releases, may be once a year. During the release most teams dev/qa/support and others have no work for at least 6 months. It's such a relaxed/laid back work environment. Come late blame it on traffic, leave early to beat the traffic and claim work from home. This is going on for years/decades and I don't think it will change as long as Dell can sell legacy outdated hardware to customers and make money.
Most employees stick for life time even though their skills are diminishing and not learning/contributing towards products for very good pay (I mean huge salaries compared to skills) too many benefits, too much vacation and most importantly little to no work.
Few years ago we had a firmware/software only release with few features and it took one year. Got an email from VP with kudos. What is interesting is no one looked in to 30 page release notes which told customers not to use these new features. Just disgustingly sick.
Also be nice to managers as they can make you or break you. If you raise concerns, you are next in the list.