Executive Leadership Team Should Be Replaced: Midlevel Managers Pretending to Be Executives - Anonymous employee Xyratex Employee Review

2.0
Jan 1, 2011
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Lots of hard-working rank and file. If senior leadership is replaced with top-flight US execuitives, the company could really fly! Havant is not where it's happening, but it's still "headquarters".

Cons

UK headquarters are behind the times. Nothing innovatives comes out of Havant. Aging IBMers who live in a vacuum are the rule in Havant, UK. They just don't get it when it comes to investing in systems and processes.

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5.0
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1.0
Dec 16, 2009
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Pros

For technical jobs, the opportunity to be involved in the development of a very exciting technology and state of the art products, strong benefit package, work with some talented people,

Cons

Lack of strong management, sweatshop mentality, very sad lack of overall direction for company and divisions within company, very poor communication to workforce, poor treatment of line employees and professional workforce by majority of managers. Often one hand does not know what the other is doing. Very political environment has created an environment of general fear of speaking out which curtails creativity at many levels. The general knowledge that once a product is developed it will be off shored to the Malaysia manufacturing site. Vested ownership of engineering is difficult if not impossible in this scenario.

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