At the risk of sounding like a disgruntled employee, I'll simply encourage you to Google Ursula Burns. You'll find that the top search is "worst CEO" and she is, in fact, the perennial worst (or on the top 5 list... WORLDWIDE). The board is afraid to fire her (I won't mention why, but it's fairly easy to figure out), and she seems to have adopted Mark Hurd's old "lay people off to meet Wall St. expectations" philosophy whilst giving herself 7-figure bonuses each year. If you want to know more, read on.... Add to Ursula Xerox's "rebrand-the-old-to-make-it-new" strategy (they took Lexmark's "Print, Move, Manage" from 10+ years ago and call it NextGen MPS) and shockingly poor integration of its 2010 acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services, and you have an old American company with a LOT of potential that is, unfortunately, forever stuck in its old ways. And, unless you are of the personality type that loves to drink the Korporate Kool Aid, Xerox is not the place for you. If you don't buy into their NextGen shtick and their not-so-unique assessment team, Newfield IT, you won't fit it in and will be pushed out. Oh, and let's not even go down the path of senior-level sales positions turning into telemarketing positions that require time-intensive Salesforce.com focus and micromanagement the likes you've never experienced anyplace else. And then there's their back-end system, ValueQuix, which is 1980s technology used for ordering and delivery and works AGAINST employees trying to execute sales. And then there is the constant territory coverage wars between Xerox "direct," their "agent" accounts, and their Global Imaging (GIS) accounts... Xerox's largest competitor in many accounts is - and I'm not making this up - itself.
I'll shut up now, but ask yourself: do I want to work for a company whose CEO is on multiple "worst CEO" lists year after year? Because stuff rolls downhill...
