Itron reviews

Constant changes of strategic direction, frequent changes of CEO, strategies verbalized but not implemented, management focus on process rather than results, processes such as agile forced into the development process while ignoring some of the basic principals such as each person is assigned to only one team at a time or whether the process is appropriate for the work just to satisfy a checkbox for senior management who sees it as a magic bullet to cover their own incompetence without really understanding it, poor management.

Unfathomable condition there at Itron with no process and no job description and no hope for improvement. Apparently Itron has completely inept senior management. I have worked at quite a few large corporations in professional departments and it is unbelievable to me that this company exists in this state of disarray. Almost everyone that I tried to do value-add work with there had no idea what to do or how to do it. The most non-value-add collection of hours spent by the largest collection of workers imaginable. It is the biggest mystery of all time how they get ISO certification. I repeatedly attempted to help the conditions there, as I have been part of other successful Lean Process improvement initiatives. Those attempts I thought initially were just being ignored but in the end I have to believe were just not understood by senior management. Example => they think “process” is a RACI diagram,……ridiculous….. Ever hear of DMAIC? Jump right past “definition of problem”…? Amazing…. I wish all the folks I worked with there the best of luck but it’s going to take a major shake-up in upper management to right that ship.