1) In India, the management is all squeaky and engaged in skirmish. The micromanagement has been induced to a great painstaking level and it irritates the good guys at work. People who are technically less adept will listen to those bs talks but guys who know their knowledge, will not care. Therefore, you will see good attrition rate of good employees. Don't trust me, ask the existing employees.
2) Bad, bad hiring. Right now, they are only inclined to hire technically inferior people/folks with no aspiration. That is demotivating.
3) Not everyone likes to work in weekend, night shift, holidays. It should be made _crystal-clear_ to everyone at the point of hiring that 'hey, this is support. All the unholy sum up will be there, as long as you are here'.
4) Once you are technically good and have achieved STSE/TSE/TAM level, it is *hard* to progress much. Because, with given workload, you won't be able to pursue own studies, unless you spend sleepless nights alone with a computer. And the management folks won't let you pursue higher.
5) IMPORTANT - please let an engineer be another engineer's manager. I have had lots of managers and I don't think one of them was better than me, either technically or academically. For a company of the standard of Red Hat, that is pathetic. In fact, I know that most of them weren't engineers at all. Some mere team leads here and there with some management jargon which they blurb on the new guys.
