Pros
In summary, you are a good fit if you: * Are new or transitioned into IT and need resume experience from a well-known company * Thrive under a Parent-Child or Command-and-Control leadership style * Are okay working overtime to meet unrealistic deadlines * Like doing agile, not being agile * Want critical information on a need-to-know basis * Are okay with delayed or ghost promotions * Do not refer gender diversity lack at the VP level * Do not mind paying high medical premiums * Prefer to keep your head down and code/work * Are able to work to the best of your ability without appreciation, recognition, and constant threat of being laid-off
Cons
In summary, you are not a good fit if you: * Are an independent thinker * Desire to grow as a leader * Enjoy collaboration, cross-functional teamwork and whole-team approach * Prefer meaningful work * Believe non-technical workers are as valuable as developers * Value quality over cutting corners * Want market competitive compensation * Do not want to relocate to ATL * Find favoritism and nepotism demoralizing * Want to work in a psychologically safe workplace * Prefer servant leadership structures * Want to work for leaders you trust, respect and feel confident in Additionally: * Above all, it does not matter HOW things get done, only that things get done. IT leadership is terrified of the Workforce Solutions President. * The CTO told people to stop being "victims" and to be "vikings” and “storm the beach.” Irrespective of intent, this message is gaslighting people into silence and normalizing mistreatment and chaos. My leaders tried to gaslight me into accepting a big ole flaming hot mess of work WITHOUT real support nor success criteria. Hard pass. *IT has a deeply entrenched permissive culture - and every definition of the word applies here. To name a few: cutting corners and going around the rules is norm: usage of unsanctioned tools, cutthroat antics to meet deadlines and perch protect. Weak boundaries such as managers or even leaders socializing with employees. As if flagrant nepotism isn’t enough. * Uppermanagement: When rating on competency, empathy, humility, integrity, communicating vision, and leading - individuals vary widely. As a collective, weak. Very self-protective and defensive. Bad actors and toadies are enabled. I recall a VP openly mocking a team during a meeting. Ironically, this team was his for YEARS until a few months prior. High school behavior runs deep outside and behind closed doors. The CTO even called out jerk behavior in meetings. Still, selective amnesia and blame-shifting responsibility for less favorable outcomes is modus operandi. * The strongest flavor of Kool Aid is the encouragement of innovation among workers. Caveat: transformation leadership itself lacks a certain ...freshness. Micro-middle management do not want leaders working for them; they want drones and toadies. So political and bureaucratic, unless you are a favorite, related to a VIP, or otherwise instrumental to their agenda, do not trust higher ups to backup on implementing ideas outside of corporate mandate. But when your ideas do become part of scope, do trust to have them passed off as their own. Foul.
