KeyBank – “Poor company for IT careers.”

Pros

Excellent benefits. Key has a great 401k matching, a cash balance pension, good selection of health coverage (including High Deductable Health Plans for HSAs), and generous PTO allocation.

Cons

Far too management heavy, more managers than people doing work. Senior management is completely out of touch with the work and issues faced by the people on the bottom. Projects are slammed in without proper time, resources, architecture. Developers are burned out by the heroic development style. Everything is driven by unreasonable and arbitrary deadlines, and very little is ever done right, if that causes a project to not be finished on time. This has massive snowballing impacts to future projects, production support personel, and in the end, customers.

Advice to Senior Management

You need to take better care of your people, understand what they do, and understand why morale is so low. All your best talent is leaving for a reason. If you don't change the way you're doing things, you're not going to have anyone left to pull the company out of the IT hole it's digging.