The CEO has told all of senior leadership to flat out fire any team leaders who aren't towing the line. Since Peters principal is in full effect there (tons of senior leaders are in positions of power just because of their tenure) we have directors, VPs, and Senior VPs firing team leaders who simply don't least like them.
The ISMs sound good on paper, but the real culture inside the company, especially in technology is FAR different.
There is a mass Exodus happening in technology right now. Ask recruiters from other companies around Detroit if you don't believe me. Everyone is jumping ship for a reason.
Regarding technology, they say that engineers get to make the technical decisions, but that couldn't be forget from the truth. Senior leadership will ALWAYS second guess your decisions and make you feel like your solution is stupid, even if they don't have a better one. I know this sounds crazy, but it's unfortunately true.
Their anonymous surveys called "The Outlet" are not anonymous, trust me. They find ways of pinpointing who said what, and they absolutely black ball you for it. Oh yeah, and leadership doesn't actually read them, it's all a ploy to get team members to think there opinion is heard. I've seen it first hand to many times.
Doing the job right isn't as important as doing the job fast. They have built up so much technical debt this way, it is incredible. Just don't be the guy left holding the bag when systems go down or it will be all your fault, even though the problem was the decisions that had been made previously by most of those in senior leader roles. Since they are never at fault, guess who is, bingo, you are. And btw, it will be reflected in your review and your bonus.
There is so much arrogance there by people who have no context of what an Enterprise solution should look like. They are using the thinking they did when the company was small and trying to apply it to a large Enterprise, and you wonder why there are so many outages. I've literally heard people say multiple times "we are Quicken loans, our way is better than the industry." When clearly those methods cause outages.
Speaking of outages, hold on tight, because you will be on them all the time. Day and night. And again, if it's your system that you inherited full of problems, doesn't matter it's all your fault.
