Good if you want a pay check - Assistant Vice President Mizuho Financial Group Employee Review

* Work many hours (often over 60, until the last month or so, with more hours on the horizon) * Many artificial deadlines (Political deadlines with various "drop dead" dates) * Below par technology (using windows 7 for development and have no plans to upgrade, for example) * Management will lie to you to get you to work more hours among other situations, ethics not high on list. * Paperwork and process over product culture. * Employee management divide, managers are treated much differently and "ideas" must come from them. * Will not automate, not interested unless told to do so. * Are using an "Agile" process in name only. * Japanese ex-pats hold most of the middle and upper positions with only a few tokens. * Sometimes almost feel complicit with managers creating paperwork and hours (when none are needed - I asked others) elongating projects working against the company. One telling story is recently (within a week or so of this writing) a number of employees were "invited" to write on this site by management (through a general email) to bolster ratings (if you inquired about the purpose). In my mind not the most ethical approach. Also, within first month was told of a "drop dead" date only to find management wanted to put on a good face for the CIO coming into town, the project or business need was never in jeopardy. This happened repeatedly over the next 6+ months. Everything is/was an emergency. I can go on... Perhaps I am in just one area under a more specific type of pressure, but I doubt it based on my talking to others in the company. Just based on the company size I'm sure you can find good areas and some individuals will have better experiences. In this I have on doubt. However, I can only relay what I have experienced.