Bad Senior Leadership - Information Security Director Ally Financial Employee Review

2.0
Jan 5, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Good Company with decent employee benefits. If your in the protected class or race the equality programs and endless budget. 401k employee match Location is nice

Cons

Horrible leadership especially in the information security area starting from the CIO the existing CISO. Barbarian style leadership. No transparency with employees. Dishonest leaders they just lie to employees. Little to no career progression. HR doesn’t protect employees. Good ole boys club with leadership. If your not in that club your outcasted. CISO is not approachable and just uses the dictatorship style with no reason or care for employees or there families.

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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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