Good middle managers - Anonymous employee DAI Employee Review

4.0
Sep 10, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Your middle managers will get the most out of you, expect a lot and help you develop professionally. Most of the staff are committed, smart and very interesting people. Interesting corporate strategy.

Cons

Senior managers/directors and C-levels lack strong corporate communication skills. Often big decisions relevant to the entire business would be floated out and never followed up on. Benefits were not explained very well to me (heard similar complaints).

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Cons

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