Good salary, warm people. Questionable direction, management - Assistant Vice President GIC Employee Review

3.0
Apr 28, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good salary, benefits. Warm co workers. Good culture of camaraderie.

Cons

Was a great place to work 5 years ago. Now actively on fire. Workload creep is a real issue, priorities shifting in the last 3 years have meant many projects being proposed, scrapped, and re-proposed. Morale took a huge hit after layers and layers of restructuring. Unsure if the company actively wants to exit employees, many peers fearing for their jobs. Leadership trying to course correct but many key members of the team have left so meaningful change is hard to implement.

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5.0
Jun 7, 2026
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Pros

Great company to work for. They pay above fairly, people are friendly and benefits / employee life - work balance is amazing.

Cons

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1.0
Jul 6, 2026
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Pros

Good vision, good talent (under bad management), market rate compensation

Cons

​Incompetent Leadership: Constant, chaotic reorganizations driven by new senior leads looking for short-term wins rather than sustainable engineering. ​Tone-Deaf Management: Townhalls are heavily curated to ignore genuine feedback regarding burnout and management debt. ​The "Silent Layoff" Strategy: Mass PIPs and aggressive performance grading are being used to quietly trim headcount, destroying team morale. ​Inefficient Ecosystem: Paralyzing security and risk processes block execution at every turn, while engineering teams are expected to run at 200%+ capacity. ​Inefficient HR: A heavy layer of senior HR personnel who offer zero practical guidance, zero empathy, and zero worker protection.

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