Amazon

Good Salary, Interesting Technology & Problem Space

Middle Management (Directors and Senior Managers) is typically hired externally, with candidates making unrealistic promises.

Typically, they grab a difficult project and commit to unrealistic deadlines, then death march the employees through these missed deadlines, and finally are let go for failure to meet goals, having alienated their subordinates.

I have been under three separate senior managers who followed this pattern and have seen countless others outside of my command chain.

Middle Management - Listen to your grass roots for deadlines, rather than your career ambitions.

Senior Management - If someone makes promises that seem too good to be true, they probably are.