Don’t do it! - Manager IT Vanguard Employee Review

I’ve been in your shoes. You’re looking for a career opportunity with a great employer. Vanguard is a financial behemoth. Seems like a great company. You’re thinking you will have a stable long term career with job security. Unfortunately, I have some bad news. This place is a nightmare! Starting with Upper Management they are more concerned about preserving their bonus and will throw you under the bus in order to save their stake of the “bonus pot” that everyone is fighting over. They will nit pick and challenge their Managers to find something wrong with at least twenty percent of their crew because if they don’t meet their quotas for “needs improvement” crew it will impact them. As a result you have a bunch of condescending, arrogant, two-faced Principals that transcends down to their Senior Management team. If you dare come in as an M3 or M4 manager you will be doomed to be politically pushed to the bottom of the rankings for the first few years and most never recover. So go ahead and think - “Well I’m better than that. I’ll do great”. You won’t and you will look back on this review and wish you had listened.