Slow Trainwreck - Anonymous employee Cubic Employee Review

1.0
Aug 13, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some great PMs, many great Techs/Engineers

Cons

Upper Management so full of cronyism it is hard for Programs to make headway as micromanagement, or complete avoidance is the result of multi-role senior management. Multiple roled leadership and a lack of empowerment and accountability create incapable, and/or incompetent management while multiple programs/projects all begin to fail at once due to the pile of impossible last minute requirements and a lack of true oversight that all inevitably fail the customer and fail the local program governance (that could have mitigated the problems and program risks). Ignoring Field Engineers is common. Squashing Field Engineers is common. Ignoring Key Regional Requirements is common. Promoting those without proper qualifications common. Over-tasking management commonplace. An absence of key personnel a regular occurrence due to multi-role incapable senior management.

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My manager was awesome. Job was diverse and creativity was welcomed. Salary was pretty good, even if I was technically doing two types of positions. Co-workers were also good, some great, actually. Work life balance was also pretty good. All credit to that goes to my manager and the managers I've had before my last one.

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In the end, my loyalty seemed to not be valued. My hard work showed and I met deadlines before the due date. Only called in sick when actually sick, and hardly took time off. The thing that bothered me the most was the way they laid me off. Group Teams video meeting, but the person giving us the news was not on video. Just a black screen, telling you that was your last day and that after that meeting your access will be cut off. And it was. I almost felt like an email would've been better than that black screen. That is really the only time I felt bad about the way things went. I know corporate life brings in the usual fiscal year layoffs, but it just felt wrong the way it was done, in my opinion.

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