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A marketing company ... - Applications Security Architect III Early Warning Services Employee Review

1.0
Oct 30, 2013
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Pros

Make no mistake, this is a marketing company. The mindset is not too different from multi-level marketing except without the commission payouts. You are expected to buy into them and sell their brand outside of your normal job duties. They have all kinds of non-marketing people like HR and Security contributing to anonymous reviews here.

Cons

They concoct security violations when they want to fire someone. Isn't it convenient so many people have been fired by security violations? Makes one wonder. Not sure if HR is in on it or is too clueless to figure out what is going on. How can you be proud to work at a company that has so much internal fraud going on? It is strange when people say they are proud to work at a company like this. It presupposes that they conducted a pretty dishonest living most of the lives prior to coming here and this seems more honest. A dishonest person is still prone to dishonesty when the need arises. It is funny how they say it is a great company to work for but yet remain anonymous. If they have true belief in their opinions and really proud, why do they have to hide in the shadows? :) It isn't much of a comparison for people who made an honest living all their lives to come to this company. Some of the things going on here are hard to stomach. It is all relative. I've seen much better relationships between security and the various development groups.

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Pros

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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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