Run for your life - Marketing Akamai Employee Review

The recent marketing leadership team that was hired approximately 2+ years ago, is extremely shady, from the CMO down. I dare you to be good at your job and try to do decent work in that department. The problem is, if you are good at what you do but, you are surrounded by unqualified people in the wrong roles, you are inevitably going to disagree with them. That doesn't fly with the egos in this marketing leadership team. They are only interested in "Yes Men." You can almost surely expect to be on the next round of layoffs if you don't get with their ill-conceived program. A lot of talented people have gone out the door for no good reason. Did I mention the layoffs? They happen annually as well as random points throughout the year. Job security is non-existent in the marketing department. There is no actual plan in any of the day-to-day work, no overarching strategy in the marketing, and no analytics being used improve the effectiveness of the work. Even though the tools are readily available, it takes competent leadership get the department to properly put them to use. There's little to no cooperation between teams and zero accountability when things get really screwed up (and they do get screwed up often. Projects take so much longer than they ever should. Work is finished and approved, then reworked constantly, because of the lack of clear leadership, guidelines, decision rights and strategy. The amount of money being wasted in the department is crazy. Bottomline: It's miserable in this department, run.