Project Management Institute reviews

It's not a very big place and people tend to stay, which is not a bad thing, but it does mean that there is little room to move up in IT. Few people change positions or advance. Overall, PMI is hampered by poor project management, scheduling, and communication between groups. Decisions are made by a small number of people who often seem to be ill-informed about the projects they control. For a fairly small place, the decision making process is often quite opaque. From an IT perspective, management has consistently demonstrated little interest in paying for a functional software development environment, so fundamental problems linger for years. There is a strong institutional predisposition to buy solutions rather than build, so much of development involves integrating vendor solutions that were never designed to work together.

Politics, favoritism and a culture of fear. Bosses are way more worried about what their boss will think than the positive reasons for getting a task done right and on time. This culture goes right to the top. PMI doesn't practice what it preaches. While there is tons of pressure to get too much done too soon, deadlines are rarely met and quality standards are poor. As others have said, lots of firing. Don't aspire to be a manager if you want to avoid that part of PMI.