Pros
Working in security at MetLife was a highly rewarding experience. 95% of my colleagues were great, fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment. I successfully introduced five new technologies over four years. Streamlined numerous operations and engineering challenges within a complex regulatory environment.
Cons
I reported my direct manager twice to Employee Relations and had an escalation meeting scheduled with executive leadership. Consequently, I was let go under the guise of a reorganization while my current position was upgraded currently sitting vacant. I reported my manager for various issues including PTO denial after working long hours, promotion denial, poor program management, wasting thousands of hours of key vendors' time, gaslighting his own team and external partners, instructing me to stay in my lane and just keep the lights on, failing to address team concerns, blatant favoritism, and lack of respect for the time his team spends. Despite being a top performer at MetLife, previously receiving an "Exceeds Expectations" rating, it became clear after the reorganization that my new leader was only interested in maintaining the status quo and not making any waves until his turn for CISO, which was not a good fit for me. MetLife is supposed to have an anti-retaliation policy, and I fear for those I left behind, having personally recruited five people to the information security organization and managing a team of approximately 25 security engineers. My Employee Relations and ethics cases are still open, but the worst has already happened.
