Kronos Incorporated – “Kronos: lost in the woods”

Pros

- Work life balance
- Vacation time
- Compensation is withing the norm for the industry
- Parking is becoming more and more available as positions are eliminated
- An overly complicated code base that will keep engineers employed for decades

Cons

- Highly political work environment with a great deal of back stabbing
- The organization is lost technically without any real leadership
- Most talented resources are wasted
- Product Management hasn't a clue about technology
- Scrum implementation is pure torture
- Middle management behaves like a pack of wolves
- Upper Management is clueless
- Product quality has become abysmal
- The engineering buildings are a dump
- Not enough power to actually run their own IT infrastructure

Advice to Senior Management

Get a clue. Your code base is overly complex, and nothing is really being done about it. Engineering Managers have no idea how to deal with people.