Frustrating, impossible place to work. - User Experience Department Ally Financial Employee Review

2.0
Dec 23, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Decent benefits and salary. Fellow employees are nice. Good place to work if you're new in your career and would like to gain experience working in corporate America; it'll be a trial by fire for you.

Cons

Directionless, clueless management. As an employee, you'll flounder wondering what is expected of you and be judged harshly for not completing whatever goals you were supposed to be accomplishing. It's up to you to figure it out. No concrete project direction; just a lot of talking about projects, as if no one truly knows what they're doing. There's zero process in place. Very few projects ever get completed because of it. It makes one wonder if the company sincerely intends to remain in business for the long run. Dead end job, no room for advancement. Amazing amount of employee turnover.

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Cons

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Pros

You get a bi-weekly paycheck.

Cons

The culture has tanked under new leadership over the last couple of years. It’s cutthroat, senior management keeps swapping out experienced leaders for their own people, same values, same bottom line only mindset. No one actually knows what they’re doing because everyone’s expected to do everything and own the fallout when it doesn’t work. Decisions get micromanaged or made behind closed doors about your own team, with no input. There’s constant pressure to cut expenses, and the target seems to double every month, at this rate it feels like the end is inevitable. Layoffs happen a few times a year now, two years running, and leadership straight up tells you it’s the new norm, so get used to it. Everyone knows it, everyone talks about it, and everyone’s living in fear. On top of that, you’re expected to work 12 hour days and answer emails on weekends, then get told you’re still not doing enough. It’s demoralizing. This is an awful place to work, and with the job market this bad, people can’t leave even though everyone’s looking. Feels like a sinking ship, and they deserve it for how they treat people.

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