What happened...... - Anonymous employee Farm Credit Financial Partners (FPI) Employee Review

What happened to the FPI that was Employers Choice? It's long gone. Most employees spend their day looking to leave or applying for other jobs. All of the full-time support that has left this year has been replaced by contractors. Most projects are filled with only contractors. The time of the SME's are sucked up by training contractor support only to have their contracts end. All departments are severely understaffed. It will be short time before the customers start complaining. Very little knowledge transfer. Communication between departments is severely siloed. Lateral or upward movement in the company is extremely difficult. Some senior management has a boy’s club only mentality. The company has a lack of maturity and decision making which is stopping it from being on the front line of technology. Security policies are out dated. They are either over-enforced or nonexistent. Constant changes to the security applications or decisions are inefficient and testing doesn't happen. Security is a "shoot from the hip" environment. “When security does its job, you can’t do yours” Customers consistently are upset over the decisions. No BOYD policy. HR doesn’t have the power it should for a company this size. There are no checks and balances. Zero work life balance. Awful WFH policy. Calling in sick causes terrible anxieties to where staff just come into work sick. Contractors are treated terribly and like second class citizens. VPN and Internet usage is awful. The amount of security behind the internet is probably better in North Korea. Management constantly gives zero direction. They will get mad if the project or decisions do not go their way even though they didn't explain how they want it to get there.