Having worked at Q for 20 years , it's sad to watch what has happened to a once great company. The indicators were there for everyone to see.
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HR used to hype the Top 100 places to work at list, then we fell off. No one seemed to care and blamed it on the voting logic.
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The employee giveback parties have all but disappeared. For our 25th, we have Dave Matthews playing an Employees only concert. For our 30th, we got cookies.
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Demographics have changed, which in turn have changed the internal cultural. No longer hungry to dominate the world, we have become complacent with org structures and status reports.
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We have lost smart, viable talent to other companies as a result of promoting friends and roommates to Executive positions.
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GD and his scorched earth policy of fiscal management eroded what tangible soft benefits there were.
This tree is rotten from the inside and the only way to fix it is to burn it down and let something new grow from the ashes.