Keep laying off the worthless middle management
Pros
Compensation can be good, but only if you are big suck-up to management. Reasonable benefits and vacation plans.
Cons
Talented, innovative engineers need not apply. Being an innovative employee will get you laid off. Middle management only keeps employees that can't get a job anywhere else, because those employees are not a threat to middle management's own positions. Improving your job skills will also get you laid off. Most of the middle management was picked on how good they are sucking up to the next level of management and are completely incompetent. They protect their own positions religiously because they know they cannot get another job anywhere else. If you are a really good suck up to middle management, you also don't have to know anything and can be paid a high compensation to do nothing all day. Being a clueless suck-up at IGT puts you on the fast track to promotion.
