Pros
Previous managers were much more generous. Learned a lot of life lessons from working with them
Kontras
After restructure, team was assigned to a manager who knew next to nothing about our roles. Added no or negative value to our day-to-day tasks and projects. Micro manager to the extreme! Constantly asking the same questions over and over again without retaining the answers we provide, and refuses to even check their inbox first before calling us, and marching up to our desks. Glad I didn't give my manager my cellular number, otherwise, my manager would probably harass me with phone calls after work. "Didn't get a chance to talk to you today. What's the status on this? What do we need to do with that?" Our team tries to improve and implement new processes. But manager makes every case an exception, deviating from the process. What is the point of having a process when you make almost every case an exception? We try to take 3 steps forward for the company, manager pulls the reins and we fall back 7 steps. Sticks their hands into everyone's business without adding value and just delaying project completion. Never walked into their office and gained positive value or learned anything from meetings with our manager. The worst type of manager - underqualified, and a complete control freak.