Network Engineering is a big joke. Time they have some real leadership in that area. Great move if you ask me.
I truly feel sorry for the leadership that is going to follow this group. Things are now so screwed up and centralized it we be a nightmare to strengthen out. The amount of time, resources and budget dedicated to doing "process" for a project now is equal to or greater then actually doing the project.
There is no process. Everyone thinks they are special and so all things are handled as exceptions to the process. Try getting a switch port activated? How many ticketing systems is that with Verizon and swivel chair process? They meet their SLA because they close your ticket and open one in their own system and then spend 6 weeks doing nothing till you escalate. When you review their metrics, 100% success on implementation! All that ignorance used to equate to job security, now it translates to, let's outsource, the vendor can fix this for us (circa HP outsourcing back in 2008).
