If you are a high performer, run. You will be asked to save the day on last minute items because underachievers dropped the ball, then you will be thrown under the bus by middle management as the one who caused the issue or delay. You will get overworked and watch as the underachievers get ahead of you because you're being blamed for their failures. IT Department laid off all the best managers who defended their employees so that they could return to the old system of having managers who treated them poorly.