Micromanagement in the extreme, good people leave fast - Senior Individual Contributor Tibco Employee Review

TIBCO redefines micromanagement. It’s a top-heavy organization where managers assign projects only to do the work themselves because no one on their team is better than them. Meetings are worthless exercises in reworking completed tasks so managers can take credit. Yes Men are rewarded, initiative is quashed, and motivation is stifled until high functioning people quit and the inept fail their way up the ladder. Everything is decided by committee, nothing is approved until management recreates the wheel (often ending up right where they started hours / days earlier). Incompetence is rewarded, hard work is ignored. Managers praise people’s performance even though they haven’t done any work, while actively ignoring the people who actually do the work. It doesn’t matter how the praised behave either (the worst performers / most praised can bully without fear of punishment). It’s almost ingrained in the culture to praise slackers and ignore good workers – all levels of management do it, almost like they’re afraid to address bad behavior. Lazy employees know they won’t be held accountable for poor performance, and know if they say ‘I’m overwhelmed’ someone will lessen their job duties or accommodate lowered expectations. There’s an ongoing excuse for poor corporate policies / processes: ‘we’re not mature enough yet for that’. TIBCO isn’t a start up anymore, it’s an enterprise – stop with the excuses. The issue is incompetence, not maturity.