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Excessively political environment, where information is often controlled, withheld and used as a weapon for personal and political advantage. Finding a good group is the KEY issue for you having a good assignment, and job/salary growth and career advancement. Internal visibility - often over actual performance - is becoming a necessary element for job survival, never mind advancement.

Ageism with no recourse. Impotent human resources managers who don't want to deal with problematic senior managers. Senior level people hiring their friends for critical positions, and the friends are incompetent. Excessive politics. Burdensome bureaucracy leading to a lack of agility--inability to get done what could be done. TAP (talent assessment process) in which competent employees are rated poorly for political reasons--I can't tell you how many times I have seen the competent employee let go in the quarterly purge, while the mediocre, non-threatening employee remains in place and is rewarded. An Asian VP who promoted every Asian on our large team before moving on to a new position. Reorganizations to cover up failures.