Bad middle-management and constant reorganizations - Senior Scientist AkzoNobel Employee Review

Extremely bad managers, the best people seldom get promoted and it is all politics more than common sense which steers the direction of the company. In R&D when I was there there was a managers retreat- of 66 in the building, only 4 of us were left who were not "officially" managers. Lots of people trying to micromanage a very few who actually do the real work... whenever the strategy proved to not work, they would reorganize so that the people responsible for the bad strategy would no longer be "responsible" for it. Reorganized 6 times in 7 years I was there!