Working in marketing here is from he11, no matter what business line you are in. Out tools su-k, our structure is broken, mo--ns are in ‘leadership’ positions because they have kissed enough butt over the years, power fights between between business lines are never ending, you can’t own anything you’re working on without someone sticking their nose in it to throw a wrench into things, opinions from other teams about the work you’re doing is constant and obnoxious, and other teams have to power to squash your intiatives because in their minds they think they are in charge of what is and isn’t a priority. This place is diseased.
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Don’t even get me started about the project manager layer here. While I believe PMs can be very helpful for large or technical projects that will span many months/years across many teams, here it is very much an extra layer, and often they do not know how to stay in their lane. I’m convinced many of them are only in place so they can provide summary reports to their managers who aren’t paying attention to what’s going on. As a previous poster mentioned, there are too many jobs here where it takes 5 people to get something done when it should take 1, max 2 to complete. What a mess.
Project managers are as useless as scrum masters. Official meeting goers. Accomplish absolutely nothing and invite every possible person to every meeting, just in case. Most meetings could be a single phone call or email but the project manager wouldn't get their ego stroked.
I feel this to the core!! Nobody knows who has final say on anything and then get pi---d if they aren't informed. Making one update involves 5 layers when it could be accomplished by one person in 5 minutes. My favorite are the project managers that set-up weekly meeting series with 135 people, for 18 months
The word “leadership” is overused as USB. Being a manager of managers is nothing more than wasteful overhead for a majority of the company.