Our leadership is one big disappointment in my opinion. I no longer have any trust or respect for them. Purely out of curiosity, what was your biggest disappointment while working here?
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After yet another RIF heard a mid manager scoff at it and dismiss it as a “no-surprises” affair, with utter contempt for those on that list. My direct manager never said a word to me when I was finally on the furloughed list. Not a shred of sympathy, like I did not exist. Don’t recall ever getting that sort of treatment. Now they wonder why people are leaving in droves.
Maybe a few years ago when someone in upper mgmt demanded (and received) a large pay increase under threat of walking, while everyone was dealing with salary reductions.
Disappointed in mid to upper management ( not execs, it’s a given what they think about staff ) who used to have the employees backs - treating us amazingly well, they incentivised hard work and quality work - now look, staff are treated like pure dirt
All of the above, but The icing on the cake was the eviction from CityWest, and everyone had to pitch in to help with the “move”.
Too much money towards "pet" projects instead of putting resources towards developing IONs core business.
Many layoffs that always trimmed good working people, never any change at the top.
During the last year our leaders had a rosy demeanour on where ION would go from the "strategic alternatives". I didn't fall for it and got the F out (thank god) ...... good grief that place is a wreck.
The cash spent on next-gen even though everyone working on it knew it wasn't going anywhere.
Biggest disappointment - a more general one of gradually watching ion go from a place everyone wanted to move to, great culture, everyone wanted our data and technology to a debt riddled, top heavy, nightmare place to work glad I’ve moved on
gxt early adopter of distributed processing was on the rise against the big shops. i remember people predicting that if i/o bought it, i/o would destroy it.