Perot Systems – “Good company - if you are willing to do what it takes to "Challenge Conventional Thinking" yourself”

Pros

You could stick your nose into other projects and help out if/when you wanted to. Great place for a generalist to learn different things if you're willing to step outside of your comfort zone.

Cons

"Bag the Big Elephant" mentality. No room for thinking like a small company. They tended to forget a lot of business in the medical community that could have been tapped from forming smaller more agile teams to go after local physician groups.

The day they went public is the day it started going downhill. Ross Jr. is a real-estate developer. He couldn't care less about Perot being a technology company.

Advice to Senior Management

Get employees to buy back the company. Go private again and become the company it was 15 to 20 years ago. Don't be afraid to let your good people strike out and bring business in without the overhead of your over-priced hosting solution in your fat, overfed data center.