Koch Program Management reviews

In the PMO, MBM is misapplied in many respects and creates an upside down command and control culture where people stop bringing ideas forward. PMs are overallocated and in some cases managed by leaders who have no prior PM experience, so many times wrong decisions get made. Sometimes toxic and immature environment in PMO where scape goats are looked for instead of management assuming responsibility and really working through issues with PMs. Leaders sometimes us provisional principles to keep themselves safe.

Koch is a challenging technical environment, if you're working in IT. The company is working hard to get into the current decade technically, so things are moving very fast, which means there's a certain amount of chaos in the environment. To be successful here, embrace the change and the chaos. It's definitely challenging, and not the place to work if you want to do the same thing every day. The high rate of change means that there's a lot of uncertainty in the environment. Lots of reorg to try to keep up with the changing technical landscape. That can be disruptive and add time to the day just to keep everyone on the same page. Another potential con for some people is that this is not a coastal style workplace. While there is some flexibility depending on what you're doing, in general you're expected to work from 8 to 5 and to be in the office every day. For me, that isn't a big challenge, but I've heard some of our employees who've worked at more liberal workplaces complain at times that the Koch environment is just a little bit 80s in terms of work practices.