Pros
- Good colleagues - Many tools - Intention to be fair to employees - Very broad portfolio >> customers have a one stop shop, employees can switch groups to work on what they like). - Potentially this could be THE IC company. - Management does good the same kind of things that would do if they managed Walmart like financials, cost cutting... but not even great on some others. - Still left few good senior managers that know what should be done. - Potential room for a good career but limited by an average company.
Kontras
Sales based senior management w/ no technical background: - Lack of creativity to set trends and unable to anticipate them beyond what others say. - Unable to promote innovation beyond the individual level. - Need to rely on senior technical management with own agendas. - Unable to understand execution. - Unable to set the right internal metrics for the issues they are concerned about. - Run the company as many individual companies. No leverage. - Emphasis on huge sales/field force dragging profit. - Reactive