Pros
Once upon a time there was amazing collaboration and people actually listened to the SMEs and sought out their expertise. Once upon a time leadership actually valued the employees, their work, their time, their knowledge and their thoughts.
Cons
Pay has always been less than. But it was easy to accept being underpaid when you had great people working alongside you and a leadership that cared and was flexible with you. Now they have a leadership team that doesn’t understand the full product making decisions and selling contracts that’s cant be supported. They wait until the 11th hour or completely after the fact to ask the SMEs for input and then it’s a scramble to make it work. Their idea to make sure profit margins are good is to cut the overhead by laying off people but then taking all those responsibilities and dumping them on someone else and now that person is working 4-5 different roles while being paid an insulting salary. When you bring up concerns you’re shut down and ignored. Then blamed for the aftermath you warned about. Some are also demeaning to their direct reports and will even speak negatively about them to others in different departments, completely unprofessional.
