There wasn't much patients for learning, or much time for teaching. Whenever I would ask for help or for someone to teach me the answer I mostly got was just go read documentation, or look at what other people have done. I was pretty much expected to "fake it till you make it" in this job. There was no training or onboarding for me when I started. When I asked them if there was any training I could do the answer I got was "what kind of training are you looking for?" I tried to do project requirements with virtually no training, so when I got evaluated on them it would be tedious hours long sessions of line by line criticism, right down to word choice, and sentence structure. When I rewrote the requirements it would be the same thing over again. I've successfully written hundreds of requirements at other jobs without issue and never got even a little bit close to this level of criticism so that was very demoralizing and discouraging. These guys have a very strict and rigid way that they want requirements written, and have no time to really teach anyone about what they expect, or how their processes work. It's just, ok here's a project, now go sink or swim.
Teams are scattered all over the planet. Some in Manila, some in Australia, some in India, some on the east coast USA, and some on the west coast USA, and some even in Hawaii. So you can expect to kiss your evenings goodbye as you will be invited to meetings at all times of day and night regardless of time zone or work hours. They will tell you in your interview that you have to be flexible with your schedule, what they don't tell you is that means you will be expected to attend evening and late night meetings 3-4 times a week. People on my team would have to block out hours on their calendars as "family time" so that they would have at least a few hours during the week to spend with their families without fear of having to attend a meeting. Work/Life isn't a thing here, it's work/no life.
I felt intimidated and had imposter syndrome very quickly as I was expected to take on a project with less than 6 weeks on the job and very little mentoring or training. The manager didn't seem to understand that a business analyst learns best by immersion, and would expect me to teach myself simply by reading what other people did and told me my requests for an immersive learning experience were unrealistic. He wasn't wrong, most people are far too busy to help anyone else. You will be expected to be an individual at this job, and be able to teach yourself. So if you're not that kind of learner you're being setup for failure almost from the beginning. At the end I was told that I wasn't a critical thinker and that they didn't have time for my learning requests, and that I wasn't self sufficient. So after less than a year of getting mercilessly criticized and then bring told it was my fault, that was enough for me to walk away.
You will also be asked to contribute to political PACs which I found very insulting. The Kochs are known to be big conservative political contributors and influencers and I am very not those things. So when you get an email asking to contribute to a PAC saying it's in "your best interest," that's quite insulting considering they have no idea what my best interests are.
