Orwellian Nightmare, Among Other Things - Anonymous employee DJI Employee Review

Where to start? I knew something was up when I was first hired and they said they'd do a trial run with me at $12.50 an hour and bump me up to 15 at a later point. I've worked for sketchy companies like this before and that promise has literally never been made good on. I told them start at 15 or no deal. Also was told in my first meeting with HR that after passing probation I'd get a free Phantom 3 Pro. There was a different HR person in Carson by the time I'd hit 3 months, who claimed total ignorance to that promise when I started. But that's neither here nor there. I worked in the call center and then in the warehouse for a total of about a year. I have a four-year degree, had been employee of the month several times, and received solid performance reviews both places-- generally under the impression that I did my job well. Then, a job comes up in the Burbank office, about an hour closer to where I was living at the time. This job was essentially a business-facing version of technical support ("Support Specialist"), I thought I was a shoe-in for it. I spend a good amount of time writing a cover letter, polishing my resume, even going so far as to go to my manager at the time for some pointers. I apply and hear nothing, while making occasional inquiries to, and getting complete non-answers from Carson HR ("oh, I'll have to look into that" etc.) The job disappears from the DJI website and I get worried. Go back to Carson HR, even more non-answers. Then finally, I actually MET the guy who got the job at the DJI booth at Cinegear that year. Turns out, he was the son of someone who worked for DJI corporate, helped them move some boxes when they moved offices a couple weeks before that, and was offered the job on the spot, lack of prior drone knowledge notwithstanding. That's DJI in a nutshell: zero transparency, connections holding more weight than competence, and an utter lack of respect along the way.