Hardware quality dropped off precipitously with LTE devices. Will likely lose consensus status of very high quality, worth the higher cost vendor and will disappear into the pool of those selling cheap crap.
Managers live in fear and are focused on avoiding blame above all else
Keep changing the name/focus of the platform product. First it was an IOT platform, then a telematics platform, now a microservices environment. It’s still the same thing and has uptime numbers so bad they are never mentioned.
Except for one huge customer, who does not yet realize the low quality of service they are getting, this offering is a failure.
Keeps closing offices to save money that is small compared to the loss of morale and outright anger by employees and the loss in efficiency.
Sr. Management insists on waterfall and either mocks or pretends to support agile methods. First level managers understand latest practices but their bosses do not.
Tendency to hire only complacent, soft spoken cogs. Managers are told to find people with sufficient skill but with no aspirations toward leadership or promotion.
Company advertises good financial performance but freezes pay or delays raises for 9 months. Cost cutting on simple office supplies and small amenities (like plastic forks) saves hardly any money but engenders lots of bad will and hurts morale.
Internal processes and tools are frozen from early century because that is how will do it. Some sales and finance processes are not understood end to end by anyone, but are a mix of disparate tool and communications methods that makes it amazing that day to day business can be conducted at all.
President will inform managers at different levels that they are to fire specific employees that he has had some sort of unfavorable encounter with despite their otherwise good performance.
Quietly Lays off about 10% of workforce every quarter. Claims this is “consolidation” due to recent company acquisitions.
Employees are not allowed to comment about current or past employees on social media including even endorsements on Linked-In.
