They hire the best people and then have them do effectively "menial" work - metrics reporting, etc. whilst strategy is decided by executives alone. This makes

They hire the best people and then have them do effectively "menial" work - metrics reporting, etc. whilst strategy is decided by executives alone. This makes them disillusioned. I'm not sure what the solution is in big companies really, but it's a real problem when standard engineers can't get their ideas or features, etc. considered, or easily prototype stuff, etc.