Weak and Incompetent IT Leaders - Senior Software Engineer Morningstar Employee Review

Ow. Since you took the time to write this scathing review, I have to assume that you're not happy at Morningstar, that you feel no one in technology leadership will listen to you, and that you feel our best days are behind us. That's certainly not the state of mind I want anyone in our technology organization to be in. It's the exact opposite. I want you to love coming to work. I'll do my part. Since I assumed the role of CTO last August, I'm now at the top of senior IT leadership and I take your comments very seriously. I obviously cannot know who you are referring to when you say "they", but "they" cannot possibly be our entire senior IT leadership team. I'd encourage you to come talk to me about your concerns. I need to hear what's behind these comments. Our technology town hall meetings consistently receive very positive reviews as we try to cover a wide variety of important and relevant topics. Most recently, we shared information about re-imagining and optimizing our data architecture to unleash even more value. We talked about leveraging alternative infrastructure to reduce complexity, improve performance, and remove developer friction. We talked about security, disaster recovery, and uptime. I think you'd agree that these are all important topics for us to share with the broader technology organization. The technology town hall meetings provide a great way to reach the most people. We all need to bring out the best in each other. I don't believe our best days are behind us and neither should you. Thanks for your feedback. The coffee machines are pretty good, aren't they?