While the company prides itself on being a diversity champion, many departments, including, internal audit, do not exercise (through action) diversity, equality, and fair treatment of all employees. The only people who have career grown and receive promotion is only if a member of the Leadership team likes and has things in common with him/her. Leadership pretends to care about career growth of its staff, however the reality is far from the truth. Qualification is constantly overlooked during promotion, and less qualified employees are promoted just because someone in the Leadership team likes the person or has "things" in common. New employees are enticed to join audit with high salary and career progression, only to find out that the only way to move up is to be liked by Leadership.
Microaggression, bias, disparaging comments, and bullying is openly exercised in team meetings. Code of Conduct violations and employee complaints are not taken seriously.
Certain Leadership team members have close relationships with the auditees and water down audit issues and reports - the conflict of interest is known by staff, but no one dares to speak up.