Symptoms of a dysfunctional company where communication has broken down, everyone with any authority is running around EXACTLY like a headless chicken, waving around frantically (giving orders). Margins are probably thin as a razor, or non-existent. They will micromanage your work time to death. You will be treated as a commodity factory machine and if you start using your brain to solve actual problems, you will be chastised. Deadlines everywhere keep everyone's brain shut off and in panic mode. No time to properly engineer anything. Nobody has the time to check anyone else's work, causing "trust" that isn't even blind, just foolish. You as the software guy end up debugging and fixing EVERYONE's mistakes. When the bug is in hardware/electronics, everyone knows who's actually to blame, but everyone still expects YOU to fix it, and they're immensely disappointed when you can't save the day.

These places cannot and will not change. If you can, find employment elsewhere.