Executive leadership has been on the decline for years, and continues to be the root of problems at the company. Employee engagement and well-being is lip service - you'll be sacrificed on the altar of O&M budgets in a heartbeat if it comes down to it.
Far too many reorganizations - some departments every other year. I was there over a decade and went through quite a few.
Alliant IT is more interested in throwing money at consultants that will tell them a strategy and process improvements than actually staffing appropriately so their own people can show their value. Resources are incredibly thin and taken for granted.
Any cohesive technology strategy would be great. My experience is upper management says the most inane and obvious things and pats themselves on the backs for being so creative and inventive, and then those same upper management people don't live the values of the company or contribute in any meaningful way to their own strategy.
Employee recognition is an afterthought at best - most times it's nearly nothing. Your performance is in no way actually rewarded because there are such tight restrictions - 90% of employees get the same merit increase each year. As long as you're not the worst of the worst, there is no distinction in recognition.
Lower leadership does the best they can but are severely limited by mediocre, controlling middle and upper leaders. There is zero ongoing leadership training or mentoring, and almost zero support for personal development except to say there are individual development plans, but you're on your own to find any personal time and money to invest. Tuition reimbursement is good but if you're looking for a certification or something less than a 2 or 4 year degree, they won't support you.
HR is all over the place - constantly understaffed and mostly caught up in trying to NOT have true policies they have to defend or uphold.
It's honestly amazing how downhill the company has gone the last 5-7 years. It's solely about budgets.
