NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging morale, unpopular reorg
&gt; The brain drain has been so pronounced that at one gathering in 2016 of the agency’s elite hacking division, one individual raised the concern with Rogers directly. According to several people familiar with the exchange, Rogers disputed that there was any increase in attrition and told his employees that they should stop complaining and get back to work.<p>Remember this. As someone who started their professional life in 2000, lived through 2009, and went through a multinational&#x27;s &quot;reorg&quot; (mass-firing by geography, several 10s of thousands of people), let me tell you :<p>As soon as you notice there is general discontent, and people no longer care enough about their jobs to ask questions like this to the top brass, it is time to make sure you have another job lined up. You can get better jobs this way, and the hammer will come down.<p>Above all, know that this Rogers guy is fairly honest. And yet, he directly contradicts the Washington Post. He&#x27;s an exec, and he has ONE job : do exactly what his superiors say without bother them.<p>He (once for me it was a she) will NOT give you any piece of information you do not already have. They are there to get people to work together.<p>By &quot;motivating&quot;.<p>By lying.<p>By cheating.<p>This means that when it comes to the health of the company and your future job prospects, a sober chat with the cleaning staff will yield more useful information than an hour long &quot;fireside chat&quot; with a highly placed manager. Not because they know a lot, but simply because they don&#x27;t lie, and they know a little. An executive is not talking to you, except in the way a vet is talking to stray dogs at the impound. They don&#x27;t respect you, they can&#x27;t do anything for you, they don&#x27;t like you ... and they&#x27;re very, very good at hiding this (just look at financial presentations on youtube, say of the IBM CEO, knowing that she has for years, every 2 months or so, fired 1000+ people, with the constant online reports of them getting cheated out of severance. Listen to her, then think about the kind of person who does that. You half expect to get free candy and a hug every 2 minutes or so when listening to her. Or listen to Clinton talking, knowing that he&#x27;s the sort of man that threatens women to have sex with him. Think about what those people he talks to really mean to him)