My time on the security team was frustrating because of the lack of support from my direct managers as well as c suite management. During my time there, my direct supervisor constantly reiterated that they would "turn me into a real security analyst" despite the fact that I had 3 years of experience with systems administration and security already and previous employers had entrusted me enough to deploy an open source SIEM by myself. It wasn't intended as a put down, but when you fail to recognize the value your employees bring to the table, give them data entry assignments, then tell them their skills aren't up to snuff, repeatedly, it gets old.
He also (not all the time, but enough for it to be a problem) did not give clear instructions, but somehow expected me to know what was considered correct. This happened at least 2 or 3 times and then the results of that outcome where held against me when I was having trouble staying engaged with work. And the 'work' was just copying tickets from excel to the ticket system and micromanaging employees in the other departments. For almost a year.....
The security team also repeatedly had very important fundamental projects cut as well and the people who truly made the decisions about security viewed the department as just another business expense and thus, failed to see the value in keeping your network properly secured. I'm not making this inference lightly either. The main priority throughout the company was just to button up situations and problems that arose instead of actually fixing them. When it came time to work across teams and the system engineers didn't get their portion of the work done I was forced (not exaggerating here) to micromanage them, and when that didn't work and the other teams didn't do their work the blame was cast on me because (as it was explained to me) the manager of the security team had no real power to enforce requirements from the other teams.
Oh yea, and the days are 10 hours long so by the time you find out this is not the place you want to be, you don't even have time left to work on getting yourself out of the company. I suspect this is the real reason there are so many long time employees. You literally cannot afford to leave.
and the dress code is straight out of the military. No hair below the color, shaved face, and company branding has to be displayed on you at all times. you can't even wear you're own jacket over your 84 lumber shirt unless you have their logo embroidered on it, even if you're an office employee...
and the diversity is so non-existant that it can't be measured with a statistic. There might have been one female employee in the I.T. department during my tenior there but that's it....
They just need to do better....
