- The new engineering leadership (installed post merger)
is poor and not seasoned. As a result, they make rookie mistakes and the after effects flow down to all levels. Being inexperienced is fine, but being cocky and arrogant as opposed to humble and curious is a recipe for disaster.
- Another effect of amateur leadership is that they *ONLY* care about their progress, growth and deliverables that directly affect their compensation milestones. It is a completely one way flow of expectations top down. They want you to do things that will affect their next promotion. This is 2019, not a 1960s labor factory.
- There is negative career growth and as a result all smart people are leaving or have already left. To the management, this doesn't seem like a problem, as they believe that the only way to motivate people is to make them forget about their careers, and emphasize on deadlines and deliverables. That my friend, is a stroke of genius!
- The products are all a result of a giant duct taped patch work. The ones which were built ground up are being de prioritized in favor of poor quality ones which currently seem feature rich, but are actually bloatwares. They have fallen way behind on engineering innovation (poor tech leadership/vision/arrogance/no value for academic experts), and as a result, the whole company needs to play catch up, and catch up fast that is. Lack of deep knowledge, combined with the need to catch up fast means building solutions like --> integrating A with B via C on D to run on top of E. Good luck!
