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The MIS department is a cesspool of incompetence. Avoid at all costs if you are eager to learn or be involved with good technology. Any attempt to help them evolve past the 20th century will be shunned and you will be labeled a "troublemaker." At this point, instead of firing you, they will methodically bully (i.e. targeted monitoring, verbal abuse, pay disparity, etc.) you until you quit. For most people, this can go, and has gone, on for years. Even if you manage to stay in good graces, vertical movement is virtually unheard of. Promotions for developers manly come in the form of title change, but rarely ever incorporate any advance in autonomy or pay. As a whole, the office political culture is out of control. Every department head openly hates each of his counterparts, actively pitting departments against one another, just to try and score petty political points. They are all fake-smiles and handshakes in public, however. None of them will actually stand up and call the other one out because they are all complicit in playing the childish game.

If you are passionate about building good software, this is not the place for you. While there are a handful of good developers, the majority of the MIS department would probably be perfectly happy flipping burgers if it paid the same as writing code. Very few people are motivated to do more than come in and sit at their desk during the day. One manager actually told a developer that "we're just here to collect a paycheck." If you are fresh out of school or trying to advance yourself as a developer, this place will leave you stagnant and disappointed.