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A gamble - Anonymous employee Early Warning Services Employee Review

2.0
Nov 10, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The pay is competitive, amount of paid time off is above average, and 401k contribution is above average. Generous work from home policies depending on your department. The company prefers to promote from within, which is good for expanding your career path. More and more folks outside the company are hearing about Zelle and using it, so if you get to work on that product, it's a good resume booster. Some employees are really helpful and happy to share their knowledge with newcomers.

Cons

It seems that the quality of your experience at Early Warning depends on the department you work in. During my time there, I met folks who were super happy with their position, manager, etc., and I met others who were absolutely miserable. My personal experience was pretty bleak. The culture and values are not applied consistently throughout the company. When it comes to work ethic, you'll find some folks who are happy to slack off without repercussions and others who work themselves to the bone to make up for it. When it comes to mistakes, poor decisions, or missed deadlines, you'll find some folks with integrity who will willingly say "that was my bad, I'll fix it" and others who will happily point their fingers at others or throw their teammates (or even their staff members) under the bus. The "pass the buck" mentality permeated multiple levels of management, and I personally saw a level of bullying and politics that drove talented, kind people out the door. I chose to leave because I worried that if I remained under such negative influences, I'd risk eventually becoming a worse person myself.

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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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