- Insecure and conservative management team, unwilling to experiment with individual project team leadership; the usual suspects lead all the projects.
- Middle management stuffed with pompous, fast aging relics from the Big 4 world.
- Swim or die mentality. "Raise your hand" (policy) or be ignored.
- Networking, favors more likely to get you promoted than your achievements/skills
- Corporate has a new found love for SharePoint! #Misery. #Shame.
- Expensive benefits, no 401K match, non-existent flexible/unlimited PTO policy. No PTO accrual.
- Quarterly and annual bonuses tied to billable utilization, regardless of availability.
- Haphazard resource allocation policy. An organization that hires experienced Project Managers and allocates them as Business Analysts, needs a reality check.
- Attrition at an all-time high. Flip-side: Incessant hiring, lack of project quality leading to fast exiting customers, and hence layoffs.
- Project Managers advocate travel out of insecurity and need for show of strength, rather than actual need.
