Strategy: Basically top level leadership has no clue. No product innovation strategy based on their core strength leading to overworking of employees and poor product quality due to leadership pushing products to satisfy the whims and fancies of Home Depot. Everyone is busy copying competitors products however they talk all the about disruptive innovations.
Culture: Leadership change strategy and priorities within a blink of an eye. And push people in the name in the name of agility culture. Continuous clash between old and new people. People are constantly hired and fired in the excuse of culture fit. There is an increasing trend of firing people who have hired in last 1-2 years and lot of non-white people. Basically if you don’t talk their language, you are over.
Engineering: The only good thing about this is, if you are early in your career, this is a perfect place to learn. However leadership strategy is to hire graduates right out of college at a minimum pay and overwork them. There are no growth strategy for Engineers. Engineering managers don’t have next steps after senior engineering manager. Then management will force you to do project leadership in order to grow further. Since almost all leadership has project leadership history, they don’t value engineering. Since they know most of the engineering is done by Chinese team or outsourced vendors.
