Do not recommend for IT dept - Professional Level IT Athene Employee Review

2.0
Aug 1, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It pays the bills and they have pretty good benefits for FTE's. Building is gorgeous.

Cons

Very questionable business practices. I personally feel they are incredibly unethical. Due to massive attrition - with key people still leaving in droves - they are lacking solid processes and procedures. A few people seem to be holding it all together. VP level management only supports the managers. Lower level employees (professional level) have no recourse for issues or support. Management breeds a very toxic environment. The business side seems decent, but IT is a cluster. No one seems to be happy. Lots and lots of very shady things going on there.

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2.0
May 5, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flex Time. Earliest your schedule can start is 630am.

Cons

The micromanaging in this department is insane no matter whose team you wind up on. There is no accountability. Quantity over Quality. The procedures for work lists are a mess and are constantly changing with no explanation. You aren’t allowed to come to conclusions on your own. You MUST ask POD. Management will ask for overtime every single week (max 10 hours) and look down on you if you don’t do any. QA is very toxic. WFM is even worse. Year end reviews are a joke. Your salary increase will not even make a dent in the rising cost of your insurance nor the cost of inflation. Work from home is allowed (barely). 4 days a month. If you’re out of WFH you either beg to use next months or forced to use No fault. If you want to advance your career choose any other company. There are minimal opportunities (with good pay) in PIP. They will auto decline almost every job you try to apply for internally. It’s difficult to be apart of any ERG as you are only allowed 1 hour a month to participate in activities or meetings. Being at the second WDM location means you miss out on a lot of things Athene (main building) has to offer. The CEO stated you are not chained to your desk when an employee asked why we don’t have Veterans Day off. The CEO also stated to not pay attention to the media when talking about our POOR stock prices. An Apollo board member is mentioned in the Epstein files.

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