The C-Suite is the center of the toxic environment. They disparage people in front of other employees. Their level of unprofessionalism is off the charts. They purposely pitted me against 2 coworkers. It made no sense then and it still makes no sense. Luckily, 6-9 months later, I consider those 2 coworkers friends.
They have no real plan for growth. Their sense of growing is to bid everything, regardless of past performance qualifications. The proposal team works countless hours for terrible pay and no real comp structure. And when they don’t win, it’s blamed on the proposal team…not on the lack of shaping, lack of customer intimacy, or lack of technical understanding. The prop team is expected to take non-solutions and turn them into winning proposals.
They hire experts and then they ignore their sound advise. We gave leadership different pathways to growth, and would only listen if a high priced consultant told them the same thing.