Worst, Ego-centric and Biased Manager I ever worked for - Anonymous employee Prudential Employee Review

1.0
Nov 8, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Handful of colleagues that you can relate to. Company business model and business ethic is good. Bloated and trickery bonus structure. Just average pay structure.

Cons

Manager Retaliation, bogus feedback structure. Double tongue colleagues and extremely hard to work with sometimes. Senior leadership talks about innovation, but practically going downhill. Immediate management silos incapable of understanding technical innovative concepts and go with the team culture that look upon no where but down. Extremely inefficient work environment, all talks but no time to work,. Very stressful work ethic but not very low throughput. 95% of work load is delegated offshore resources with limited skills. All on shore employees are well known to play politics but not real work. Too much finger pointing, a good amount work time is spent on blame game and try to reduce the blame on self. Zero team concept. Hard to believe I ever accepted a position with this strangely pivoted company in terms of politics and work culture. Good place to blunt whatever technical skills you may have., seriously!

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