Inept leadership. Top-down. Best employees get nowhere, knuckleheads flourish.
Pros
The original team was amazing. After being acquired it's been all down-hill.
Cons
It's frankly staggering to have watched the incompetent management not see who the valuable contributors were over the past few years. It was equally mind-numbing how those who did nothing but hold back the team and sabotage projects with one horrendously ill-advised decision after another ... were revered and rewarded. The Frisco culture (headquarters) is all about throwing others under the bus, putting their fingerprints on everything and taking credit for the work of others. They have ZERO domain knowledge, yet refuse to listen to those who do. The amount of money wasted is shocking. And they never learn, repeating the same amateurish approach on each new project. Management is so fixated on bogus burn-down charts, while paying zero attention as to real-life progress or the health of the team. The team? They couldn't care less about the team. I could give countless examples. I worked in Burlington for almost ten years. I loved my team and we always did the right thing and decisions were easy because we respected each other. After the acquisition things went smoothly for a period, until they began driving out the original team, one by one. And after each person left ... you guessed it ... they were blamed and disrespected. Thrown under the bus. I had to fight to give me direct report an exceeds for the year because it meant more money. Yet they blew over a million on a project that could have been done for half the price and better. Top-down approach for everything. There's no grassroots contribution or innovation welcome at IntrinsiQ. I was never so happy to be able to walk away, but it was sad leaving my team behind in that Hell.
