Oppressive Middle Management Layer - Anonymous employee Guidewire Employee Review

Middle management is destroying employee morale. They are so fear driven and insecure that they spend all their time managing upwards. Rather than being there to serve their employees and looking out for customers, all they care about is how to cover themselves and how to move up. It creates a stifling, uncreative, risk averse punitive back stabbing uncollaborative culture. And there is a complete failure to communicate downwards.