No respect - Anonymous Ally Financial Employee Review

1.0
Aug 24, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

This company should only be used for as short of a tenure as possible for a resume builder.

Cons

Employees receive 0 respect from leaders. In my entire career, I have never experienced such egotistical, self serving, inflexible, rude, hypocritical, lack of team motivation and communication skills. Managers are mostly fine and do well to support and encourage their teams. Directors and Sr Directors treat us like garbage. They bark orders at us, never commend us or acknowledge us for a good job, only acknowledge or speak to those that are their favorites which creates a huge division in departments, undermine, and ignore us. They regurgitate every single ridiculous corporate memo and tell us to participate, but then when we try to push the culture or create an initiative/project they stonewall us. My Senior Director literally refuses to acknowledge any communication from those aside from her 3 or 4 favorites across the team. The rest of us she treats us like how dare we have the audacity to speak with her or try and learn from her. How are we supposed to grow and push the positive culture if our own leaders treat us with contempt? Ally only cares about control and not about a supportive culture. Growth here is only available to those who lie, treat others poorly, and step on the backs of their colleagues. All the leaders clearly got there by being a cheap corporate minion and not by actually possessing the skills to successfully lead and motivate a department. All they care about is their poisonous office based stance where they make you work in an office to be subject to embarrassing and degrading office politics and a very clear effort to put the little employee back in their rightful place at the bottom to be treated with contempt and control.

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5.0
Jul 5, 2026
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Pros

Great culture, good compensation and benefits. Excellent management team, very supportive and interactive with the team.

Cons

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2.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

Hybrid schedule is reasonable, with only three days a week required in office. Benefits are decent and we have a fairly new office building is a nice.

Cons

Don’t be fooled by Glassdoor’s rating. It likely reflects the old Ally, not the company it is today. Ally used to be a great place to work, with strong culture, meaningful work, and real innovation. They used to pride themselves on culture, and now it’s the worst I’ve seen it. There have been significant leadership changes, with many of the leaders who made Ally great shown the door. Round after round of layoffs has everyone whispering about who’s next, and the people who remain here are stuck cycling through failed re-orgs meant to “fix” the department. It’s gotten bad enough that I know people actively hoping to get cut just to walk away with severance. If it doesn’t get better soon, I might be hoping to be let go myself. I can’t recommend it the way I once would have.

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