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Early Warning Services

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If you live day-to-day, it's a fun place to work. If you care about your professional future, stay away. - IT Administrative Early Warning Services Employee Review

2.0
May 20, 2014
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Pros

HR puts on a ton of events and is always giving stuff away. Pretty flexible days. A paycheck?

Cons

IT and Security The IT and Security department seem to always be at odds which results in everything taking twice as long to get done as it should. The management of the security department is a mess. On the technology side, management is so full of "black-helicopter-paranoia" that everything is an emergency. In the other security group, the management seems to know virtually nothing about anything and spends their time randomly walking around looking for things to complain about. This level of dysfunction isn't too surprising, considering it comes from the top. The only good thing I have to say about security is that there are one or two dedicated engineers there that seem to actually get work done and not upset everyone in the company at the same time. The Operations department isn't any better. Management seems disinterested in working half the time, and the other half the time they spend counting tickets. No one seems to know what anyone else is doing and many of the employees don't even seem to know what they are doing. At a high level, management seems to have a good idea of what needs to get done, but they don't know how to do it themselves and it never gets communicated down to their minions. Projects are horrible mismanaged and never executed properly, strong personalities conflict within the groups, and there are never enough resources for what is asked of the department, probably because management spending all the money on their bonuses. We have a few hard workers, but they seem to have given up long ago.

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5.0
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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

This is silly but I cannot stand the work laptops. Small little windows machines.

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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