Lack of leadership, vision, and strategy. Driven by sales and product politics
Lack of leadership, vision, and strategy. Driven by sales and product politics
You can easily float if that is what you want.
- Define your own focus areas.
- Work and learn things that are of your personal interest (within some boundaries).
- No growth opportunities; there is simply no concept for career progression.
- Lack of vision across leadership.
- Lack of a technical long-term strategy and consensus-driven development.
- Driven by sales and product, and therefore politics.
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