Success is elusive and at best temporary. - Human Resources Ally Financial Employee Review

3.0
Jan 6, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Being a subsidiary of GMAC has its benefits, both from a total rewards, recognition, and benefits perspective. But this is a company that excelled in another world, prior to the mortgage market meltdown and global economic turmoil. Work - life balance was strongly encouraged and supported.

Cons

GMAC-RFC served a niche market that at one point was very profitable. Then the world changed and the company did not change fast enough or move in the right direction. While talking about diversification of its portfolio, the company missed the boat in that it still focused on the sub prime market. The pressures brought about by the sale of GMAC to Cerebus also created turmoil as GMAC sought to consolidate and become more efficient. There were culture clashes and low employee engagement as a result. The people who needed to be retained were either let go or left the company before things got too bad.

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Pros

We get to work from home full time.

Cons

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1.0
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Pros

You get a bi-weekly paycheck.

Cons

The culture has tanked under new leadership over the last couple of years. It’s cutthroat, senior management keeps swapping out experienced leaders for their own people, same values, same bottom line only mindset. No one actually knows what they’re doing because everyone’s expected to do everything and own the fallout when it doesn’t work. Decisions get micromanaged or made behind closed doors about your own team, with no input. There’s constant pressure to cut expenses, and the target seems to double every month, at this rate it feels like the end is inevitable. Layoffs happen a few times a year now, two years running, and leadership straight up tells you it’s the new norm, so get used to it. Everyone knows it, everyone talks about it, and everyone’s living in fear. On top of that, you’re expected to work 12 hour days and answer emails on weekends, then get told you’re still not doing enough. It’s demoralizing. This is an awful place to work, and with the job market this bad, people can’t leave even though everyone’s looking. Feels like a sinking ship, and they deserve it for how they treat people.

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