mercy for my friends, the law for my enemies - Technical Support FHLBank Chicago Employee Review

they talk all day about DI&E but it's just for show - upper management is a sea of white faces - if they practiced what they preached they'd resign and make way for minority voices. their vaccine mandate hit people of color the hardest - this will be looked back on in years to come as institutional racism imo. ~ bad covid response meant all the decent folk and managers left or got force resigned. we were told people 'resigned' only to find them on linkedin looking for jobs - faux fired - some of the best people at the bank - so shortsighted and malicious - we all lost trust in the bank when it happened. many had no choice but to pick between something they didn't want to do and feeding their family - terrible to do that to people - terrible. most people I talk to are job hunting hard. ~ competencies are used to deny you advancement but never to help you. if management likes you, they'll bump you up on the spot. if they don't like you they'll use the competencies to block you off. ~ HR don't listen, they'll just give you some speech about how great the company is - never listen to concerns. look at their responses to other reviews - you'll get the same responses if you ever dare question the place or suggest improvements. find one review where they admitted any fault - you won't. ~ CIO is not a tech person and sits in his closed door office. no idea how to run the department and it shows. don't bother giving feedback he doesn't listen to the little people - he knows it all. ~ culture took a big nosedive when Ericson took over - he's very uninspiring and is just a numbers guy - so everybody gets treated as a number not a person - demotivation all over the place. ~ I'd stay very clear - it might look ok the first few months but then you'll soon realize what the place truly is - crazy toxic - most are counting the hours until they can get out. trust me - don't apply!!