Accounting Department - Director Palo Alto Networks Employee Review

2.0
Feb 11, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Working with the supply chain / operations department was a delightful experience.

Cons

Accounting Department untrustworthy. Lack of trust at all levels within the department (peer to peer, manager to employee, employee to manager). Each and every individual in a survival and self preservation mode instead of working towards the company goals. People are afraid to speak up out of fear of backlash from the leader, Directive and authoritative culture instead of collaborative culture (culture that encourages individuals to work against each other instead of working as a team). Employees are treated as assets with expiration dates instead of individuals and humans. HR department ineffective at influencing and detracting leaders from making unethical and immoral decisions regarding employees. Eight weeks after I was hired to do a particular job, a pre planned reorg was announced. This reorg considerably diluted my responsibilities and relegated my day to day work to that of a first line manager. After the re org, I was reporting to a manager who had significantly fewer years of experience, lack of management skills to manage and provide mentorship to someone at my level and no prior technical and operational experience required to do this specific and niche job. I was told that this re org was decided before I interviewed for this position but not disclosed to me. This led me to resign within four months of joining the company. This huge dis service was done to me in bad taste.

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