Vantaggi
- Exciting business potential. - Good customer base.
Svantaggi
- Company-wide lack of structure, oversight, accountability, and communication. - Disconnected and in some cases toxic leadership. - Routine misperception that staff is underutilized and all are expendable. The workload is actually borderine unmanageable for many. - Loss of staff rarely leads to replacement, and their workload is typically expected to be permanently absorbed by other team members...sometimes even a completely different and inappropriate department. - No effort to retain staff that many would consider critical. They often let good and very experienced talent go, then spend more money to replace them and start from scratch. - Revolving door in multiple critical departments often puts you in difficult positions with managing your team. - Leadership puts no stock in subject matter experts. They routinely question every decision that's made, which often leads to being unable to have decision-making ability where you should. - Leaders in other departments often speak on areas in which they are not experienced or knowledgeable, which routinely leads to questioning, and sometimes disregarding, the experts. - Leaders in other departments routinely try to micro-manage those in other departments. This goes unchecked despite being reported repeatedly. - Deficiencies in other departments, sometimes due to general leadership decisions, can prevent IT from being able to perform their functions. Blame is often redirected towards IT without correction (sometimes from the department at fault!) due to lack of communication from leadership. Reasons for not communicating has ranged from ignorance to conscious decisions. - Infrequent pay adjustments. I was able to provide a raise/increase to my staff only once during my 5 year tenure. - Extremely poor work-life balance. - Expectation of, and lack of appreciation for, staff that needs to be always on/available 24/7.