I worked for the company from 2017-2021 as a senior project manager. I am going to talk about the supervisor of the Top-3 project management team, for her lack of leadership, her unprofessional behaviour at the workplace and her unfair treatment towards team members. The supervisor expects the project managers to come up with technical solutions and drive the solutions through the development groups to achieve sometimes unrealistic timelines. Failing of doing so, the project manager is labelled with lack of technical competency or lack of critical analytical capability. Many times, despite team members’ escalation, throughout the process, aside from stating the demand of the original unrealistic timeline and scope and blaming project managers for not coming up with a technical solution, she added no value. The supervisor has a hard time letting her people run their projects without micro-managing. Planning and executing a project with a measured cadence are often viewed as a lack of sense of urgency. The group doesn’t have a clearly defined project governance model and project management process to follow. This has resulted in team members constantly in a firefighting mode without clear direction and support. In my 20+ years of professional career working in complex high-tech environments, I have never experienced an incompetent leader like her. This sentiment is echoed by other key Project Managers leaving the group due to her low level of leadership. The attrition rate of the team is constantly higher than 20% in the past 7 years. Aside from her poor leadership capability, what really bothered me was her unprofessional behaviour at the workplace towards the team members. Public shaming of her subordinators without ground really shocked me. It’s disappointing to see a senior leader treating her employees in this discriminatory manner. In the end, HR, unsurprisingly, sided with the management team. My advice, do not work for this company.
