* Brain Drain as Small Business Card grows - technology leaders moving into MGT
* Managers are not given good management training
* Culture of competition means nobody wants to share, and it benefits each other to make you look bad
* Managers are supposed to mentor you, but it's very much sink or swim
* Management quality is wildly variable
* Management direction is vague
* Advancement is by making yourself visible to higher levels rather than delivering
* "Callibrations" is a forced-ranking system where 25% are bad, 50% are good , and 25% are great. Rankings are based on Manager advocating for employee. It can get ugly.
