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Worker Bees: Awesome. Queen Bees: Can't Find The Hive

Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Verizon for 20 years
February 21, 2019
Newark, New Jersey
2.0
Negative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Some of the smartest people around are doing the work.

Cons

Upper management won't share strategy, and the culture is like a bunch of fiefdoms with way too much finger-pointing. All teams compete for the same scraps of land. There's no true collaboration between teams.

Advice to Management

They live in the 90s as far as corporate philosophy and are very much not open to change.

They don't understand what their teams do but insist their way is better, only looking for short-term gains with top-down, lagging direction.

And all this with the expectation of worship and respect?

Try earning that respect.

Try reading some tech and leadership articles based on this century.

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