Box

Great compensation, flexible work schedule, exciting projects, and bright, cooperative engineers.

Over the last few years, Box has successfully brought in some very strong people with vast technical/leadership experience. These individuals were a head above existing middle managers. Respect for leadership dwindled, and upper management reacted by promoting the managers who had lost the backing of their more senior reports up the corporate ladder, away from dealing with actual projects and developers, where they were doing even more damage.

Ask underperforming middle management to step down no matter how long they work at Box and whom they are friends with.

Put people with leadership experience in more than one place in charge.