It could be really good, but my experience was meh - Product Owner (PO) Ally Financial Employee Review

2.0
Aug 4, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pay, healthcare benefits, 401k match (if you stay there long enough), and paid paternity leave (if you stay there at least 1 year I think)

Cons

This is just my experience, but I just felt like it was hot mess in the auto side of the business. My boss left to a different team on my first week, my team was all remote but didn't really desire to connect at all. I had no direction for the first 5 months, I didn't do anything for the first 5 months because getting access to systems took forever. I was told to work on user stories but then was told that most of them would never see the light of day unless they were business critical. My team wasn't super helpful in explaining how to get access to systems or even explaining how things were done for X system, request, process, .etc. I left at 6 months because I was so bored and checked out. I will say that we did get a new manager in the my last two months of working and he seemed like a great guy and thought he was going ot be a solid leader for the team but I was too bored/annoyed to see if that would go anywhere.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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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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