Worst leadership to date - Developer Avaya Employee Review

1.0
Feb 18, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

The people I work with are amazing, very talented and very motivated, despite all the bad leadership decisions

Cons

- Organizational shuffling used to "fix" problems instead of tackling the issues head on - Leadership wants things done its way, and its way only - Leadership does not consider success to be the ability to deliver a high quality product that our customer wants. Instead, success is measured by who gets to make a decision vs the other person in the room. - The good decisions are take 2 years too late. It seems we are always re-inventing the wheel, and never getting a chance to give our customers what they want. And when we do decide on a good wheel design, Leadership mis-plans the whole thing and we end up having to do it all over again the next year - No promotions or raises for over 3 years now - Lay-offs, Lay-offs, Lay-offs. Cost is the bottom line. - Very unrealistic goals set by the leadership team, and they are completely unwilling to accept the reality of resource constraints. - Leadership is willing to blame anyone and anything, including previously-successful processes, to explain why we fail to deliver on their unrealistic expectations

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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