Drastic Downhill Since March 2016 - Anonymous employee Healthgrades Employee Review

The hiring of a new CIO in March 2016 has drastically (and I don't use that word lightly) negatively affected the corporate culture in Engineering. Prior to March 2016, the engineering culture was great! The engineers (web, database, QA, Helpdesk) were a happy bunch of people who really liked where they worked. No one was looking to work elsewhere. In the last 5 months (since the new CIO was hired) the morale amongst engineers has steadily degraded. I've seen C-level hirings and firings a number of times in my career, and there is always some upheaval that goes with it. This is not the normal upheaval - it's a complete shift in corporate culture. It's now a place where no one wants to be. A large majority of the engineers are now openly looking for positions elsewhere. The people who say that they are not looking are the exception.