Presumably there are a couple of engineers who deserve some of the blame, but wow, what better way to say &quot;Our culture is poison&quot;. Both because they&#x27;re throwing independent contributors under the bus, and because he&#x27;s saying the culture is such that the engineers would think it&#x27;s OK.<p>To be fair, I think he might not have meant it to come out that way.<p>EDIT: Looking again at the article, it seems like the US CEO isn&#x27;t even aware of this: &quot;The German automaker has suspended 10 senior managers, including three top engineers, as part of its internal investigation.&quot; So VW doesn&#x27;t necessarily have a poisonous culture. But they do have a US CEO who doesn&#x27;t prepare when he testifies to Congress.