CoBank reviews

I got caught up in the last round layoffs? I'm not sure what they are calling them but the options that they gave hard working employees weren't really options. It was cut throat and it was brutle. A lot of former employees are hurting... Honestly, management should be ashamed of themselves. They should have treated the employees they were going to seperate with a lot more respect. We deserved that much. In IT, there is a new sherrif. She knocked down the old way and replaced it with her vision. Some of it, I agreed with, some of it I didn't. It doesn't matter now... My opinion doesn't really count much anymore as the new structure is fully in place and the old is just a faint memory. I wasn't a huge fan of SAFe Agile, but overall it is just Agile with a lot more metrics and eyeballs looking at those metrics. In my opinion, CoBank is going to be a corporate shell with no real personality. It will be a job. Maybe you hang out there for a few years but you will move on. Not a lot of career opportunities there and there is no psychological saftey there anymore.

IT is sinking ship with massive salary cuts, demotions and people quitting or getting let go that have worked at the bank for years. The CIO they hired last year has made a mess of everything. Morale is extremely low. They used to have an awesome bonus pack based on performance, then it went to 3 %, this year, then another 5% drop for next year along with massive salary cuts, demotions, layoffs and basically forcing people out with voluntary resignations. If you value your career, don't sign for a job here.