NCR maintains legacy POS systems with a mostly outsourced labor force.

Splunk maintains a logging aggregator with a mostly San Francisco staff.

A manager’s job at NCR is mostly about cracking the whip to try to get your team to solve boring enterprise client technical problems, but they usually don’t have enough context to understand the problem.

A manager’s job at Splunk is to motivate a team that used to work at a hip, fast growing startup who just got their payout from an Cisco acquisition and feel like the product is getting sidelined.