IBM

Solid operational management, great colleagues, flexibility for remote work, a good environment for women, and the opportunity to learn new technologies.

Too many levels of upper-level executives (most outside of France) who don't understand the issues of developers actually working with clients and generating revenue.

There are more than ten levels between the CEO and us.

Reasonable requests to address issues to improve revenues and client satisfaction "disappear" in the latest "brilliant" strategies of the upper-level executives, who seem to spend a lot of time making videos to share their "brilliance" rather than addressing real issues that could be solved quite quickly and simply.

It's frustrating.

The top execs in France and worldwide are fine. The low-level managers are brilliant. The employees really care and want to make a difference.

Please do something about the six layers of useless upper-level execs (mostly in the US, but elsewhere as well) who do nothing but cause us problems, delegate and deny necessary staffing approvals, and kill the motivation and energy of hard-working developers, while spending all of their time making videos about their "brilliant" strategy.