Deloitte

• Really lovely work colleagues who want to do the best for the team and for the products.
• Great company perks and benefits.
• Amazing pension.
• Ability to purchase up to 10 additional annual leave days.
• Forward-thinking leadership.
• Looks great on your CV.

• Probably the most boring work you'll do in your career.
• Disconnect between leadership and middle management in terms of what work you'll be doing.
• No clear product roadmap.
• Lots of red tape.
• Artificial deadlines and unnecessary crunching to get features developed for demos (which stakeholders don't even turn up to).
• Pay is below average.

Leadership and middle management do not share the same vision and values. This causes confusion for what the team should be working towards.

Middle management needs to spend less time getting involved with the individual contributors and more time aligning themselves with leadership, so that we all work towards the same goal. Focus on outcomes, not outputs.