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Early Warning Services

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A low pressure but mismanaged mess. - Anonymous employee Early Warning Services Employee Review

2.0
Jul 31, 2012
Anonymous employee
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Pros

7 hour work day, no micro management, decent starting salary, good benefits, come and go as you wish, out-of-touch managers will never challenge your decision making, the work is really really easy, onsite procurement guru, nice security guards, cool limitless technology, friendly colleagues on a personal level, IT is very responsive and very knowledgeable, awkward but fun employee events, regular companywide all staff meetings with open bars, flushless urinals, restricted rooms, free covered parking available, 4 weeks PTO when starting, casual dress code (jeans everyday all day), executives tells good jokes, physical wellness program, lengthy project timelines, TVs with cable in conference rooms, on site tranquility room, some rooms have ping-pong...

Cons

No incentive to work hard (annual raises are 2% across the board no matter how well or how bad your performance review went). You can actually do nothing and no one will call you out on it and thus there is no accountability. Bureaucracy worst than the federal government (and I worked for the federal government). Internal departments are never on same page and thus act as silos. Legal and compliance issues are slow to be addressed. HR is out-of-touch and come off as puppets of executives. Management is incapable of being hands-on what-so-ever...thus the failure rate for "innovative" projects and any business development initiatives is very high. Silly security procedures are ever evolving to the dissatisfaction of most employees giving you the impression that you work within a super max prision. Most employees evolve into "dead fish" with no real purpose. I reiterate everything the previous 3 reviews detailed.

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Pros

Really solid company. Good high level leadership and the best culture ive seen. Runs like a start up so lots of opportunity for impact. Growth is everywhere and theyre supportive of continuing ed. Culture varies by LOB. I work in Paze and cannot speak to Zelle or Certos.

Cons

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1.0
May 3, 2026
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Pros

Friendly coworkers, interesting problem space if you like finance and big data. In-office requirements but many show up after 10 or leave before 3.

Cons

Around the time of my exit, two people in leadership were fired. In my professional career I've never witnessed a firing that felt more like a humiliation ritual. They were paraded around the office and through all-hands meetings to aid transition (presumably for a new VP installing their replacement of choice), with my direct leads acting incredibly two-faced. Wishing condolences to the faces of the newly departed, but celebrating behind closed doors. Really gross. This behavior would at least make sense if it were in service of a good technical vision, but in my ten years of experience I have truly never seen worse development standards. Rampant ego and inertia. Getting engineers to even use Git is like pulling teeth. Want to install Python 3.10.x instead of Python 3.11.x? Have fun waiting 2 months for approval. And the communication from the executive level is nausea-inducing. Rarely we hear anything that strikes at the core of these issues. Rather it is vapid platitude after platitude. And insistence on the adoption of core values that feel like a Temu version of Amazon LPs.

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