Needs a major management overhaul - Anonymous employee Cross Match Technologies Employee Review

Extremely poor annual salary increases, big layoffs in the past, company has a revolving door CEO, many bring big ideas and they fire existing upper management and bring in their friends to fill the roles it either lasts or nothing happens. No IPO realization. Too much middle management some are lacking experience and the skill sets to be managers and tend to dip into working on things they have no experience or knowledge in. Good'ole boy club exists and favoritism amongst managers for certain employees is obvious, managers tend to overlook more experienced employees and go to the rookies or junior level people with minimal experience for answers and tend to shut others out in the process. Management also tends to boost and promote people into roles they have no qualifications or experience in. The company is very title oriented and bickering between departments is often a typical meeting tone. Bad project management and direction, often projects are started with no game plan of attack. Communication is very poor between departments, causing money and time to be wasted on a daily basis. Company is not diversified, has plenty of PhD titles, but lacks the innovation that it once had. Company on a whole is very secretive amongst it's employees and you will often be in the dark on a lot of things that are not company trade secrets or top secret info. This also applies to projects, even within your own group management is very secretive on new projects and often only selected people will know or be involved. These selected people are usually based on the previous favoritism statement and will often be discussed in private closed door meetings yet the project is worked on in plain site. HR department is transparent and employees really feel there is no mediator to turn to when there are problems. Benefits are okay but not the best. Little room for promotion unless you are in the club. Management does not recognize hard work, innovation or completing projects on time with a low bug count. Often you may end up fixing someone else's mistake while they wipe their hands of it and move on to something new. Management often honors and acknowledges these types and overlooks the mistakes though they end up being very costly to the company on a whole. Management is not phased by this too often and still see's these types as employee of the month material and does not criticize them for their mistakes. Others though will get lambasted with comments and questions if there are issues. Much of management is old blood and is not very open to new hires ideas or background and often are resistant to new CEO policies. CEO typically talks the talk but does not walk the walk. Company is big on sales and contracts and spends thousands of dollars flying staff all over the world on missionary type sales pitches with minimal ROI. Competition is stiff and the company is falling behind the 8 ball on a lot of sectors and technology and needs to realize this to survive.