Ally Financial reviews

• Applied for Associate Business Systems Analyst with SmartAuction, given a different title and job responsibilities instead and kept with the same team. Role was flat out changed after being hired without discussion. • Unorganized Leadership that doesn’t communicate with each other. • Leadership glued to their screens, Management 3 feet away would IM/Email workers instead of talking to workers directly • Terrible Work Life Balance – Below Market Pay with 45-50 Hour office work week expected • Working after hours at home and working Friday-Saturday-Sunday is the norm. This includes weekends at 2am. Forget a weekend life. No Extra Pay given. When having an out of town vacation already planned and approved, management expects you to bring your laptop with you to work on the vacation. • Talking to management about issues will be turned against the employee • Disciplinary action given to employees who want to move within the company. All good performance reviews, but when asking to explore different roles within the company, management will give employees disciplinary action. • Employees who put in their two weeks will be escorted out immediately if management doesn’t like them, without opportunity to give an exit interview • Management doesn’t look long term as far as how much time is needed for projects. As projects reach deadlines, instead of pushing back the deadline they require employees to start working nights and weekends in order to meet them. This isn’t a one-time situation, this is normal. This means working nights and even more on weekends than previously suggested. When asked to have more help on the project, the response is, “It is expected that salaried employees will need to put in more work.” Management doesn’t like employees who say no to working on weekends regardless on if your personal life has prior plans that weekend.

You hear Ally and you think modern online bank. Unfortunately, instead of being in tune with the pulse of modern society and technology, it's a lot of show and no go. The bank was stood up and for the most part has been left under warming lights like an old fast food burger. The luster wears off quickly as the old crusty GMAC interests creep in. Between the Detroit GMAC people who insist on doing things the same way that landed them in need of a rebrand to hide their shame and the Charlotte "leaders" who are too busy playing politics and pretending like they're still at Bank of America, things can get ugly. While pay can be competitive it can also be terrible with even worse raise/bonus policies. Politics is extremely heavy even at the ground level. Middle management is ridiculously thick with drama and executive management is tired and, again, crusty old school. While some of the pros are free parking and great primary offices, this only applies if you're in the main Detroit and Charlotte offices. Their other Charlotte locations do not have free parking and are dated and soul sucking. Work life balance, while as stated above can be great, can also be unrealistically bad. Culture looks good at first and the all hands calls ooze hr feel good buzz words and tactics however none of it ever amounts to anything. They sound like google but certainly don't behave like google.