* The work-from-home plan is performance-based, and performance ratings were "re-calibrated" at the same time the plan was released to coincidentally be lower (so no one qualifies for full WFH)
* My supervisor had no analytical experience - he had never written a line of code, didn't even understand the concept of statistical significance. And he was supervising analysts. He didn't understand anything about what I worked on.
* Every single team and department is understaffed and overworked, and when you complain, they make vague promises about more new hires coming that never make up for the amount of turnover. Seriously, there is a mass exodus right now.
* Diversity here is a joke. There is a member of management who actively treated women differently and seemed extremely reluctant to hire women. I was the subject of more than one blatantly sexist incident from other analysts. The racial diversity is basically non-existent.
* Management is absolutely delusional. They have no concept of what a reasonable amount of work is, they change directions at the drop of a hat, and they force you to bury analytical results that don't back up their pre-conceived notions. There is no data-based decision-making here. They tell you the results they want and you have to find numbers that back that up. More than once, I was forced into weeks-long rounds of revisions to analysis because management didn't understand why the numbers weren't lining up with their ideas.
* The data systems are ancient and break down constantly. Queries were slow, if I could run them at all. We got daily emails that data systems would be updating late or not at all. Plus, the security protocols in place to get access to the data are so opaque, new hires went weeks (if not months) before being able to do analysis because no one knew how to get them the access they needed.
* Opportunities for advancement beyond a certain point are extremely limited, if you don't have the right background and if you're not willing to basically do the work of getting another degree outside of work hours (and let's be honest - if you're not of the right demographics). The requirements for advancement (even just within the analyst track, let alone into management) are completely disconnected from the realities of the job.
* The CEO is a disaster. The overwork, rapidly shifting priorities, and unrealistic timelines got so much worse once he arrived. He creates arbitrary deadlines, one of which forced people to work unprecedented amounts of overtime during the pandemic. He asked us to revise reports to have charts displaying two simple numbers instead of stating those numbers in a sentence, because he "doesn't like to read."
* Management does. not. care. what employees think. They released the work from home plan without looking at the results of the associate opinion survey they had just conducted. They don't listen when teams say they're overworked and understaffed. They don't listen to analysts about what the data says about what's feasible or what business decisions make sense. They do everything based on the outdated ideas of a few middle-aged men who have built their careers at one archaic, overly-bureaucratic, dysfunctional company. I was there for almost three years, and I didn't even get an exit interview on the way out.
