Depending on what team you’re in, your experience can be vastly different. Like all places, some people just shouldn’t be managers. Internal Audit at FCB definitely suffers from that. While a lot of the department is understanding that internal audit does not mean life or death, there are some who don’t see that. They will act as if you need to get this work done over health emergencies, or any sort of emergency.
You will get hostile work environment if you take last minute days off for a health emergency.
They are also limited on who they promote sometimes. It seems you need to ensure your manager really likes you, or you won’t be moving up at all even if you do the work of a higher role. (You definitely won’t get paid for taking on the work of a higher role)
They clearly can’t keep people or compete with other banks for IA, so a lot of audits are understaffed and limited time budget. Higher ups expect you to complete stuff in insane timeframes that burn out their employees.
They want to be a big bank, but management will kick and scream to not implement new processes that will streamline efficiency. A lot of management hates changes.
Perhaps I just have a bipolar manager, but I cannot explain how many months it has been where one day it’s all good. The next it is all CAPS and being upset about who knows what.
