Visa Inc. Employee Reviews about "senior management"

Pros

- Good work-life balance is promoted - Inclusive work culture - Strong promoter of career progress and internal mobility - Decent compensation - Goal oriented performance and reward structure

Cons

- Matrixed organization with usual large-company challenges of geographic vs. corporate goal challenges - Not enough people/team management opportunities until Senior Director level given that Visa is a large Fortune500 company with relatively smaller workforce

Pros

Very structured internship. Lectures on overview of other departments are a good initiative. Worked on real projects with real responsibilities! Case competition was a good exposure for us to meet clients and present to senior management

Cons

interns hardly had a chance to be converted to full-time. Limited career progression. Should not focus too much on grades/interviews in recruitment

Pros

Business model is great. There are some truly talented people working at the company. There is a culture of experimentation and plenty of money to support the experiments. Management needs to support the staff.

Cons

The senior management is not effective at understanding the way the company must conduct itself. Nor are they good at communicating to the staff, particularly in the technology area. There has been an enormous emphasis on hiring Indian students fresh out of school, almost the exclusion of all else. And there seems to be very little interest in promoting anyone with gray hair.

Pros

I have a few really good colleagues in my team and I am thankful to have learned so much from everyone. Visa as a company is awesome, great pay, great benefits and good learning. I highly approve of the CEO as well.

Cons

There is favoritism and nepotism in the workplace that has lowered everyone's morale. Senior Management only seem to care about people who are all talk and no play. The vice president himself makes no effort to engage on a detail project level and rather demands more and more from the staff. There are last minute meetings and unorganized project plans which makes it stressful to work. People are very close to go to HR for so many immoral things, but rather keep quiet out of fear.

Pros

Location and looks after employees - good salary . I believe the changes coming will benefit the company. The 'workers' are very talented

Cons

Senior management is old boy network and in addition the integration with Visa inc is painful. There is so much red tape to try and get anything done

Pros

Great business model with much potential for growth.

Cons

Old boys club but set to change with the old guards leaving following change in senior management. In addition, quite a hierarchical place and you have to be a 'politician' and play your cards well to get recognition!

Pros

Pay and benefits are above average. Majority of workforce are competent individuals who are friendly.

Cons

IPO resulted in a Visa USA management coup where majority of senior/tenured Visa International staff were terminated. Performance reviews are vague, subjective and meaningless, HR is clueless and provide no support to workforce. Politics and bureaucracy is rampant and out of control (nurmerous signatures required for capital purchases(13), product approval (25)). I am afraid to raise issues to HR for fear of retribution. Executives spout the company line of cutting costs but this is only applies to the worker bee. Typical corporate greed: No pay raises for employees in 2008, CEO lives at 4 Seasons San Francisco and reaped $1.7 million bonus and has 2 private/leased corporate jets ($50 mil), exec management offsite meeting in Pebble Beach (thousands per exec). Hundreds of millions spent on ad campaigns with no empirical data to support expense but great for execs at NFL events and Olympics. Current mission to force out/lay off more seasoned employees who are close to retirement (severence packages are generous, though). Benefits continue to be cut while executives are rolling in dough (from generous stock options awarded to themselves).

Pros

Have worked at Visa for 20 years and seeing a lot of changes. The current management purged the previous management only to cut the benefits and make stupid demands on how we should be doing our jobs. They are clueless, however full of lip service. Don't get me wrong though 90% of the people that work at Visa are great folks and work very hard. The other 10% are senior management and the folks that think that visa owes them something. This is a very diverse environment where any color or race is treated equally. However, , many management are afraid to speak up and I do empathize. Working at Visa is like living in Russia.

Cons

watch the movie Office Space...management that are clueless on what's going on but are great at coming up with new policies.

Pros

Can't think of any pros

Cons

Worst experience in my professional journey. People on the team are ill treated. Senior management operates from Foster city so they are not aware of how directors and managers are treating their subordinates. Managers never appreciate hard work. Forget having one on one with your manager. Directors favorite person is appointed the manager even though they are not fit to be managers. Good technical people are not always good managers. Stay away from the Front end team in Austin.

Pros

Great business that was always growing. Took care of the employees with many benefits that were better than peer institutions.

Cons

New senior management let go of all the old staff regardless of their attitudes and experience. They took away many employee benefits without adequate notice.