1) Sales/Execs push product. Predix is so beyond fucked its not funny. I don't think anyone can come in and fix all the tech debt. Sales will push new customers and force engineers to meet their deadlines. Execs won't allow engineers time to fix anything. Its just keep pushing out awful hacks and 70% working products.
2) Anything you say your manager might listen but it nothing will happen. In order to get anything done you have 10 meetings about it during the week.
The San Ramon office is like a h1b1 warehouse. I think they know they have these people almost locked in and take advantage of it. I've been here over a year and have yet to see a single person fired.
You could honestly fire 40% of the people in GE Digital and it'll function the same if not better then it did before
The problem I see with an acquisition growth approach IMO is that I would only expect GE to retain maybe 20% of the engineers after 3 years due to the lack of adequate supporting infrastructure and cultural foundation to help long term engagement. None of the talks I watched from management at GE Digital sounded focused at all either - the vision is all over the place and sounded like children wishing for ponies and candy without explaining how to get there and what to prioritize. That lack of management focus is what start-up folks recognize as a recipe for failure regardless of funding level.