Program Manager - Program Manager IHG Hotels and Resorts Employee Review

Company only values employees from a certain demography. There is a lot of favoritism in all teams. People are handed promotions outside of annual reviews and promotions are pre-determined without consideration to performance. There are quite a few org changes typically involving favorite employees without consideration to the projects at hand and their impacts. Management does not really care for employees. Most town halls are a waste of time as senior leadership team cannot even name their important projects. The work life balance is awesome because there are lot more people and less work. Most projects are managed poorly and no one has control over what is going on in any project. When projects do not succeed, all excess employees hired will be let go and the favorites will remain and the cycle starts. There is no true innovation happening at this place. Most reviews for IHG are positive because they are from front desk employees at hotels. Sales/Marketing/Technology teams who work at corporate do not have good benefits and have to go through heavy politics every day.