- Everyone works in silos. Even within 1 department, there can be silos
- Very lean and small teams. For a newbie, you'll probably be hitting the ground running, which is great for your learning curve, but will be quite limited in developing certain soft skills that are broadly used in most other companies + your managers may not have much time to grow and develop you. For mid-managers, you'll be spending a lot of time on executional matters, rather than higher level thinking. Senior management will probably be spending most of their time in a lot of meetings that go nowhere, rather than being strategic and growing their teams.
- senior leaders aren't always well suited for their roles due to their backgrounds, due to them not coming from a business background, but an educational one. Strategic and informed decision making is in short supply.
- lack sense of urgency on business matters
- small budgets to work with: you'll be insourcing a lot of manual work. Not great use of your time, plus with limited manpower, you will be stretched.
- senior management of the global team love to introduce 5 year plans/restructurings, which you hear about but never see any differences materialise.
- most global and regional management teams work at a snails pace
- job promotions do not exist. you have to apply for a role internally - which means you'll also be up against anyone else who's interested in applying.
