Looks good from outside but toxic! Run! - Instructional Designer Ally Financial Employee Review

1.0
Feb 16, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits such as student loan repayment, decent bonuses, 401k match and retirement

Cons

Auto Learning & Development - upper leaders (directors and up) totally out of touch - rampant favoritism, policies that make no sense, can’t be explained, and are not applied to all. No diversity. Promotions are not posted but handed out like candy to friends with no regard for qualifications or job performance. Some allowed to remain remote and others not. Constant chaos and reorganization that keeps staff off balance and focused on “what are they going to do next?” rather than on producing quality work. Pay is below industry averages. SOME - not all - forced to go back to office though job can be more effectively performed remotely. Department is rotting from the inside - not reflective of all departments at Ally.

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5.0
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Pros

We get to work from home full time.

Cons

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1.0
Jul 15, 2026
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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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