Spot on.

Corporate culture is nothing of the sort, if it's not being covertly used to discriminate and hire "the right people" it's being used as coercive control of workers.

And how come in modern times software engineers are supposed to do everything including code from hunting out work opportunities, chasing customers, and "improving soft skills" in the Hunger Games of seemingly maintaining your job.

If you can, up sticks and get out, find a better employer for sure.