Great - On the surface... - Web Applications Developer Ally Financial Employee Review

1.0
Feb 18, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Excellent pay levels when you join the team - Really good benefits and an affordable price - Working with some of the best talent in Charlotte - Collaborative eCommerce culture

Cons

- Don't expect a raise. Raises are far and few between and bonuses only happen if you fight for them. - Benefits costs continue to rise each year, but that's pretty standard. - Really great people being pushed to the breaking point. If you like having a work life balance, this is not for you. - The culture is only surface deep. The majority of the company really doesn't understand what it means to be a digital organization.

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We get to work from home full time.

Cons

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1.0
Jul 15, 2026
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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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