Pros
Bonus Structure Benefits Ability to bank PTO
Cons
Toxic, immature, lazy middle management Lack of accountability both on team and middle managers Ludicrously outdated tools and software Imagine a junior manager whose focus points are her serial lawsuits against her HOA and appearing busy in a way that deflects any attention from executive leadership. Combine this with a head design manager too demoralized by years of corporate status quo to deal with this situation, or for that matter any of our others. Junior manager fails to understand basic design terms and principles from design systems to process to mobile design. She will chastise a designer for missing a weekly check-in with nasty emails, while the bulk of her own time is spent discussing her endless issues with the team’s project manager, a third component of leadership who is more on the ball than either manager - but ironically has almost literally no responsibilities or function beyond taking in design tickets occasionally and being the sounding board for junior manager’s unrelenting self-created dramatics. Executive leadership has no experience in the design or for that matter digital. Tools are antiquated and out of sync with reality outside the company, and the team has no say. Weekly team meetings continue to be cancelled due to lack of interest. If held, they are a perfunctory check-in at best and at worst a time for junior manager to share personal anecdotes. Coding of design system, or for that matter anything else, is glacial and poorly executed.
