- Low salaries for teams consisting of many highly qualified individuals (PhD graduates).
- Career progression is not made clear when first joining.
- Career progression is gated behind a “Systems Engineering” competency framework.
- Career progression is not based on merit but on how long an individual has been at the company.
- Lack of roadmapping leading to poorly planned work.
- Technical-leadership not communicating properly to people-leadership.
- Research Scientists are not trusted to complete their work by people-leaders.
- Work is micro-managed and still not finished.
- No accountability for constant right-shifting of deadlines.
- Novel techniques and approaches are met with resistance - “If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it” mentality.
- Work carried out is closer to Software Engineering, but under System Engineering title, Research Scientists are given poor resourcing.
- E.g. Office terminals and laptops do not have enough compute (lag when using a standard IDE).
- Lack of on-site facilities planning
- E.g. expedited hiring leading to lack of parking. Inappropriate security-safe floor plating.