Great benefits, culture focused on corporate gamesmanship
Great benefits, culture focused on corporate gamesmanship
Great pay, bonuses, and opportunity for upward mobility.
Wide variety of opportunities.
Projects are run in such a way as to discourage innovation and exploration. More time is spent planning and justifying than doing. Agile terminology is used when the environment combines agile and waterfall in a way that robs each of the things that are positive about them. There is no empowerment to adapt the process to the team and project.
Tolerate more ambiguity to allow more innovation. Forcing teams to spend so much time telling you what they're going to do, by when, months in advance is discouraging risk-taking and innovation.
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