1. Cronyism and self-promotions of most senior leadership positions, with no industry experience or knowledge to back it up, is standard practise within MMDV.
2. Previous employee who took a senior leadership role came back to the company, and I quote: "to have a good time", which had a knock on effect as lack of any experience, knowledge, professionalism, commercial acumen, people management or leadership skills.
3. Grossly misleading to state work/life balance as per what the interviews sell through. The” wellness” of employees, is not practised by MMDV senior leadership. Excellent at selling it in, but it is not put into practise.
4. Toxic culture. The teams are stressed due to the lack of leadership experience, or professional conduct. Senior leadership actively contribute to toxic culture by highlighting all the team members ‘faults’ and ‘weaknesses’ to anyone new entering the company and bad mouthing the newcomers to team members, continuously insulting and being derogatory. Big gaps in business conduct and communication, some people are highly professional, and others don't have basic business conduct skills.
5. Leadership are not agile as constantly making tech teams incorporate waterfall/ Gantt charts into product development, wasting time.
6. Senior Leadership needs to stop preaching about things they have no industry experience or knowledge about (with the exception of the 3 books that were read on the subject) and let the experts who are hired do their jobs, as they are the subject matter experts.
7. Eliminate micromanagement that all the senior leadership team seem to process (with exception of the tech teams) - this goes against any agile methodology and continuous improvement way of working. It does not cultivate innovation, transparency, trust, or successful team collaboration.
