- Workload is overwhelming; a 60-hour week is a light load here. Work-life balance is just a buzzword.
- Way too many meetings/Teams calls. I average 5-6 hours of meetings PER DAY. I've seen the calendars of other staff who have meetings across all four time zones, with 10-12 hours of back-to-back meetings daily. Still expected to get work done.
- Many upper-level leaders seem to work 24/7 and expect everyone else to do the same. I'm not sure how some of them got married/had kids/stay married/etc. See above.
- Constant restructuring, some of which has to happen because they burn out a high-level manager/director and find they have been doing the work of 4-5 people, making it impossible to replace them with just one person
- There are so many service lanes, all of which operate in a vacuum. It ends up like going to college and all five of your professors assign you two hours of homework each night...it's not feasible but there is no communication between them and they wouldn't care anyway
- Far too many leadership roles. Managers, directors, associate VPs, senior VPs, just plain VPs, C-suite. Not only does this muddy the waters on priorities, but you end up accountable to so many different people that it becomes impossible to satisfy them all at the same time. In fact, you often have to choose who to disappoint/make angry due to time and resource constraints
- Many leaders are leaders in name only and have no clue how to actually lead and inspire people. So many in upper-level management are condescending and just plain mean. There are a lot of emotional, reactive decisions made that end up just wasting time and resources
- The point above happens probably because this company is 'physician owned'. If you have worked in healthcare for any significant time, you likely understand that doctors can be good at their primary job and absolutely awful at everything else. That holds true here. I've seen some of the dumbest demands from doctors here, and they must be catered to. Many of the non-physician leaders fear the doctors so much that they never put up any resistance to even the worst decisions.
- The worst timelines/deadlines for projects and other work I have ever dealt with in two decades of professional IT work.
- Constant fires; I wake up every day full of dread for what will go wrong
