Change Fatigue - Anonymous employee DAI Employee Review

3.0
May 6, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

These are many bright, hardworking people, who do a lot of excellent work when left to get down to business. There are many good middle managers, and a strong ethos in some groups.

Cons

The reorganization was a great way to systematize the different parts of the business to ensure we get the most out of them. One of the groups has become a graveyard for long term employees who have a lot of deep thoughts, go to conferences, long for the good old days of big, slow, fatty development contracts in a less competitive time, and produce little in the way of support to projects or new business.

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