Vantaggi
- You get paid on time. - Free snacks, beer, and food at the office (sarcasm).
Svantaggi
Without a doubt, this was one of the worst professional experiences of my career. During the single year I worked there, I was responsible for 14 concurrent projects, most of which shared the same limited pool of resources with other project managers. As a result, resource planning became a constant internal battle. Securing additional hours for a specific role on a project often felt less like planning and more like competition. Rather than addressing the root causes—such as hiring additional staff or reducing chronic over-allocation—the organization chose to assign blame. Project managers from other departments were brought in as “solutions,” under the assumption that the issues stemmed from individual performance rather than systemic problems. Lack of transparency around project hour estimates was common and effectively normalized. Since clients were billed on an hourly basis, higher billed hours were implicitly rewarded, regardless of whether those estimates reflected reality or ethical practice. In summary, it was an organization marked by poor governance, weak professional standards, and a clear disregard for its people.