Paul Maritz is a visionary and very decent guy, but he installed cronies who installed other cronies who echoed each other and insulated themselves from the reality on the ground. The disconnect is incredible!
The new breed of executives brought into the company during the past two years are seriously wrecking the place. They strutted into the place with the attitude that they are the ones with the experience to take the company to the next level, and completely trampled on all the engineers and managers who actually built the business in the first place. The environment is so political now that meritocracy is out the windows, and if you say something they don't like or agree with, you're ignored, or side-lined.
Did I say meritocracy is dead? At the upper management level, it's all about who likes who, who aligns with who, and who licks boots the best. Execs are hiring their buddies into the company as other execs, but define the promotion bar so high that internal people can't possibly qualify any more.
Company seems to treat people like commodity now.
Stock price is currently the only thing still holding the place together, attrition is picking up, but no one who can do something about this seems to know or care.
