Most of my cons are specific to the finance team that I was on:
-There were expectations that we could both simplify our work and continually take on more and more. The CEO would always say "GOHIO" (Get Our House In Order), but due to the expectations that were never possible, and there was never time to fix broken systems since expanding the scope of our work was preferred
-Senior FinOps management is incredibly disconnected from the work that individual contributors are doing, and it very clearly shows. The management doesn't do a good job understanding and recognizing how hard some people on their team are working, and this has caused a lot of people to leave and MANY people to really think hard about leaving soon
-There is pay inequality on the team and pay within FinOps below management levels was not competitive
-Work/Life balance was constantly brought up and while working from home it only got worse and worse. Management acknowledged it but never made a real attempt to improve it. The best we got was an email with an attached PowerPoint explaining "best practices" for working remotely, which didn't address any of the root causes of people's frustration.
Overall, its a genuinely great company, but the FinOps team has leadership that is either disconnected from the people spending 10+ hours / day working or they just don't mind people being frustrated since LiveRamp doesn't have trouble sourcing candidates. People are going to continue to be frustrated and many more are considering leaving unless this changes.
