Pros
- People are generally pretty cool -Culture is pretty good with lots of Kool-Aid drinking, you really need to buy into that "Team-member" mantra -You'll probably have a job for life if you don't royally screw up -Chef Jack makes pretty good food
Cons
- If you're a high performer and come from a FAANG or a major or any high performing company, you're really going to need to swallow your pride when dealing with almost any level of management at SFFCU. Pretty much every VP and down (I didn't really engage with upper management) would be at best an average or below average contributor at any type of company I mentioned above. - Their business model is stuck in the 80s. I think it's because this place has tons of people who have been in the same job for decades. It's very top down, hierarchical and compartmentalized versus the more nimble platform models other companies are adopting. - You'll really struggle to find things to learn here. I would run Python scripts on the side to keep my skills sharp but then I had nothing to apply them to. I had access to the most minimal tools. - Their technology stack is pretty weak, they adopt analytic platforms like Dundus vs more mainstream stuff like MS Power BI or Spotfire and et cetera --- so it's not even easily marketable if you wanted to leave. -It is odd how management works here, for example if a VP or manager from one department/division has a question or etc for person in another department, they'll only talk to their equivalent manager or VP in that department and let it trickle down to the relevant person. It's really odd. -If I heard another assistant manager or manager say in a meeting "...how can that person say that, they're not a manager..." I'd think it'd be less painful to slowly stick a fork in my eye and twist it. - There's a strong chance you'll die in the job you're hired into. -I could go on and on about I think if you read this far, you probably for the gist.