Great fundamentals, wrong strategy
Great fundamentals, wrong strategy
Company stability, education and certification support, and a relatively good work/life balance in mature teams.
Terrible managers around (not all, but a higher index of really bad managers than any other place before), slow growth for experienced industry hires.
Eliminate the ranking system. Use a competency-based performance evaluation that doesn't assume 10% of bad performers. Instead of improving the company, it creates the trend for 50% to focus on politics and "perform well," while creating +30% underperformers.
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