Leaders have been asked to stack rank people again and expecting a May round of cuts. Leaders are now taking all the visible sessions away from subordinates while setting up a scape goat on every team to blame for their failures so they have someone to offer up.
As always cronyism is more important than performance which is why NetApp is back in this situation. Some of the worst leaders in the industry is the bay area reputation. They can't attract leadership talent because the only leaders are there for who they worked with in their last job, loyalty trumps skill. No one wants to join that environment because your career is mapped out before you are hired and anyone there with talent is a threat to the D players brought in by Ceaser.
Total vacuum of leadership, but when all you hire is people from your last job, you can't adapt to industry changes, they are all the same vanilla experience and they owe their position to loyalty not skill. HR is there to keep the lawsuits down, not drive diversity of talent. Microsoft year 2004 is calling.