-Corporate, hierarchical, bureaucratic, slow moving
-Living on the success of few big brands and riding that as far as it will go - little focus outside of core 3-4 brands
-Low expectations of employees. Reliant on consultants
-Countless woman/man hours wasted in unnecessary meetings
-Left this job feeling less technically capable than when joining
-HR department is considered incompetent to the point where victims of poor management or harassment will not seek help, anticipating no resolution and being identified for speaking up
-Little passion from employees for the work they do
-Employees do not seem valued by management
-Care more about things being done than done well - check the box mentality
-CYA is the common practice. Accountability avoidance and passing blame the norm
-Dated marketing practices
-No establishment of project direction, midpoint goals, or specific desired outcomes at project onset, leads to incredible amounts of time wasted on midproject "pivots" (rework towards a new end any time any one stakeholder divines a new desired outcome). Deadlines rarely met. No consequences for missing deadlines.
-Consensus-seeking to the point of ideas never progressing
-Structure with tension between brand owner companies and market companies creates many challenges and exhausts a lot of time and resources
-Little if any long-term career pathing
-Favoritism and nepotism common
-Reward relationships over competence, but seems to be changing
-Followers not innovators
-Little long term planning - focus never goes beyond next deadline
-Will almost always look to do things the way they were done before rather than try something new - even when old ways have failed
-Frequent re-orgs and team shakeups
-Disconnect between most brands marketing and commercialization/sales teams
