PepsiCo – “Lack of management accountability”

Pros

The job has exceptionally great pay.
The holidays and paid days off are tremendous.
Very liberal budgets/deadlines, finish work at your pace.

Cons

Programmers from a generation ago when anyone could be hired as a programmer due to a programmer shortage have by seniority moved up into the ranks of management. The skill sets are far below par.

Due to the excessive budgets there is no real accountability. If a one month project takes four months that's fine; six months is fine also; or eight.

The excessive budgets leave management free to fill projects with cronies. So a project is loaded with 80% cronies who do nothing except create their facade.There is no incentive/reward to work hard. The senior people have done no work in so long I'm not sure they are capable of working any more.

There is no one minding the store. Upper management is in Plano Texas. I haven't seen them in a long time, and never in the winter.

Advice to Senior Management

Create realistic budgets so that managers have incentive to use good people.
Check the aptititude of the workers, including managers.
Use oversight.