1. Nobody knows what they're doing, lots of pushing work here and there. The weakest link accounts for everything.
2. Lack of appreciation: Going the extra mile is desired but not valued. The appraisal systems are designed with supervision in mind (whether you go the extra mile), not to credit you. The appreciation initiatives from People Services are superficial and irrelevant (read: shout-outs on a portal and an awkward call setup to coerce people into affirming one another). We do plenty of these things via our team/private messages, what we needed was for practical initiatives to come from the management, not another staged act.
3. Low salary: Wages are at least 50% below median salary across many offices, company does not incentivize anything at all. Increment from starting pay was about 10-12% total, over 5years, avg 2-3% per year.
4. No coherent framework for progression; irrelevant training modules (it's always about cyber-security) that cannot be utilized to improve work performance. Promotion happens based on connections, nothing to do with your job capabilities. Don't be surprised your manager doesn't understand how the department functions at all.
5. Benefits are dwindling: Year by year, benefits are reduced and removed. However we see senior people on bigger vacation packages and millions in bonuses.
6. The puzzle pieces don't fit: Finance - Acquisitions - Account Mgmt - Programming - Ops, many many layers of processes are dictated, none of them are transparent or communicated, emails left unanswered w/o redirection, 1 simple function that works on Excel, will need you to jump thru 5-8 step processes with 2 other departments, taking a horrific 10-14days on timeline.
7. The larger environment does not enable an employee to do a good job. Autonomy has been greatly replaced by ineffective systems and leaders in place.
8. Great legacies have been lost and destroyed in the hands of today's leaders. This is a company in ruins.
