>Exxon spokesperson Amy von Walter rejects those characterizations. “The idea that ExxonMobil’s culture is what these employees say it is doesn’t hold water for

>Exxon spokesperson Amy von Walter rejects those characterizations. “The idea that ExxonMobil’s culture is what these employees say it is doesn’t hold water for two reasons: how many people join this company each year and how long people stay,” she wrote in an email. Yeah, I feel like if you're focusing on "how long people stay", and also "how many people join" you're looking at entrenched middle management and rapid turnover of new hires. What's really going on in that situation is that people are building little internal fiefdoms and engaging in petty middle management power plays like trying to sabotage each other's projects in case they make your own team look bad, and bloating your own department with unnecessary hires to enhance your own prestige. If you let certain kinds of people settle in to middle management they become like barnacles that are impossible to dislodge.