Pros
A lot of great people who mean well, but overshadowed by the coercive power culture and poor leaders.
Cons
- Coercive power culture in which incompetent leaders demand that you meet unreasonable deadlines with limited resources and threaten your compensation, bonus, and benefits if you don't work overtime to deliver.
- Leaders never take accountability for their own failures. An SVP in technology silently conducted a layoff (WARN wasn't reported to State of Illinois) to scapegoat individuals for Enterprise issues that originated from the department the same leader was the SVP over for the prior five years.
- Zero strategy or direction from the top down. The CEO, Victor Dodig, stepped into his position in September 2014 with the stock trading at ~$45 /share. Ten years later it is trading at ~$48.50 /share, it's way past due for heads to roll!
- Leaders acknowledge their is a lack of resources and encourage everyone to pull together and "figure it out", but instead the quality employees figure their way out to better jobs at better organizations.
- New hires are often allowed to work fulltime remote; however, if an existing employee requests to transition from hybrid to remote due to life changes, it is an uphill battle that is NOT supported, despite peers being hired with that privilege and provided with higher pay.
- HR is oblivious to their own rules and only gets involved if a VP requests their involvement. They've routinely cost employees money with their complete lack of knowledge of internal policies and legal requirements.
- Every team is riddled with regulatory findings due to the aforementioned poor leadership, and everything is urgent; however, due to the lack of a comprehensive strategy, the left hand never knows what the right hand is doing and the company continues to spiral out of control and unable to sustain any further growth.
- If you're a woman or a person of color, stay away because the executives are a perfect example of an old fashioned boys club.