Wish an upper limit on words was set for this section, but here goes fwiw:
- Poor pay, and inconsistent and unfair employee performance review and promotion process.
- Top heavy company with a pyramid scheme that requires the overworked staff to contribute tirelessly to projects, so the credit, financial benefits, and company focus is taken away by an incompetent middle and upper management. The ratio of managers to staff is very poor.
- The company is slow to evolve to changing market forces and honestly, those with decision making power, and those hired to strategize are doing a very poor job.
- Technology/ IT, and other administrative facilities are impressive on paper, but are poor on performance and delivering the support needed by staff. Marketing and HR are responsible for the Dewey comedy club and Dewey Circus respectively.
- Scattered Company Vision: Dewberry seems to be into a lot of very many things and even traditional departments and specialists are into doing whatever remotely related work these days. A somewhat fuzzy vision has been handed down completely to middle management, while upper management manages the top-down numbers. Middle management uses weird and likely unethical practices to make the numbers, while killing the company from within on a daily basis.
- The company promotes a culture of 'me first' and individualism. In fact, I was shocked to see 'Individualism' listed in the company's core values when I joined them! Given the scarce resources, salaries, and due credit, everyone is tempted and driven towards hoarding relentlessly for themselves. Selfishness and lack of a common big picture vision is missing at all levels of the company. They put up good honest sounding presentations, but don't buy it - it is all lip service.
So, despite being in a niche area and having a long history of doing good work, a questionable chairman (original company founder's flaky son!!), a poor company vision and strategy, and a rate of positive change slower than fossilization, is likely to take this company down many notches from its glory days.
