Toxic Leadership - Anonymous employee Hitachi Vantara Employee Review

1.0
Dec 3, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It's a private company so the whims of the market are less impactful as frequently as with a public company. They also have a decent employee investment program as long as you stay for 3 years or more. In my 5 years there, there were very few who stayed more than 3.

Cons

- The worst corporate leadership I've seen in 20 years in the IT industry - US leadership is too busy playing game of thrones among each other to manage - The real Japanese leadership is completely hands off and can't tell when a US exec is up to the job or not - Nepotism is rife with little to no oversight - In 5 years only saw one internal promotion, everything else was from external - Extremely slow in taking new solutions to market - Very little standardization in anything other than customer ordering process - There was not a usable internal Intranet from 2019-2020! - Poor understanding of the storage market; have not been able to pivot - SW development for IT customers is being built by developers who come from the OT world; the result ends up being a mismatch at best.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Decent pay, average benefits, some autonomy to get things done

Cons

The entire leadership group that I was hired under was gone within 18 months and replaced but far worse examples. Micro-managing and then threatening corrective action plans as a means to force out those who they didn't like or earned too much. From a technology perspective, the storage products are average and inline with competition, but with far fewer reps in the field and no real marketing or inside sales to speak of, Hitachi Vantara is largely irrelevant in the Storage industry now.

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