Change Agents Not Welcome - Unspecified/Anonymous Engineering Leadership Role Woodward Employee Review

2.0
Dec 2, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, great reputation in the Fort Collins community. Very interesting product mix. Extremely talented technical workforce. Excellent practices for root cause analysis, implementation of corrective action, and preventing reocurrence.

Cons

This company has the most conservative, monolithic management cultures that I have ever witnessed. Interestingly, during the time I was there, 95% of the power and politics seem to emanate from no more than three individuals who typically resided in other [sometimes global] locations. And this bad behavior drove the propagation of more bad behaviour throughout the entire company. Morale in the engineering organization has been rock bottom for many years, and there is no relief in sight. There is no room for "change agents" in this company; it's all about comply or die.

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