This is not a job you can move up in easily, they just replace management with people who have been at the company for a while and they play favorites. People who are not as experienced or have the right skills to help the other analysts will be in positions of power.
You will do things outside of your job roles all the time as a favor to the management, they don't typically return the favor, you will end up doing someone else's job at some point, but that's with any job.
You will never get promoted or a raise, unless they change it.
I took a paycut DURING A PANDEMIC to keep my job, things were tight, then we switched to a 30 min lunch from an hour (which gives 2.5 hours of OT) which helped defer some of the pay cut, then they switched back to full hour lunches, so it was tighter.
This company went through a lot in the seven months I was there: A brand switchover from Getronics, Work From Home, Loss of Desk Tools (Access to AD and systems you need to support the users for your desk), a Paycut, Management shifts in the upper half of the company, and Clients making my life harder and implementing processes that took more time and were generally above my pay grade something that the company could have done but didn't want to be bothered with. My desk supported Lotus Notes, which is super old and the documentation on Lotus Notes was good. My problem is more with Corporate than anything. They don't care about the people who make sure they can still collect a paycheck at the end of the week.
