National Security Agency reviews

Since the mid-2000s, the corporate culture at NSA has been deteriorating, a process that has only accelerated in the past 24 months. Deplorable management behavior has been seeping down the ranks and now is running rampant even among front-line and mid-level leadership. Lack of funding for promotions has resulted in a hyper-competitiveness for even low-level promotions and results in people being pushed into leadership who exhibit some of the most pernicious management behaviors, including favoritism, scapegoating, bullying and age/gender discrimination. These behaviors go completely unchecked, despite vocal feedback from the workforce. By rewarding those skilled primarily at self-promotion and short-term results, the agency has recently begun to see deterioration of technical talent. Senior management has done nothing to address these serious systemic issues and has instead opted to deny that these problems exist in the first place. Many of the most talented continue to flee. Things are bad and everyone knows it.

Unfortunately there is extreme favoritism , unfairness, and verbal abuse. If you are a hardworking, conscientious employee you will see things that are very inappropriate. The horrible part is senior leadership ignores what is going on and acts as if everything is okay. As an employee who just wanted to go in to work and do the best job possible (keeping my head down and doing the work right), sadly, you get targeted. I know this is a review and you don't know me at all, but I promise I am not an employee who has issues or starts trouble. Promotions are fought upon based on accomplishment and not performance (in which your supervisor decides who gets what tasking, essentially choosing who gets the best accomplishments). I feel I could write a book about how people are put in managerial positions, do things that are inappropriate, and then remain as managers because no one takes action to correct them. It is nearly impossible to get fired after you complete your probation period. If you are a lazy person who prefers gossiping all day instead of working, throwing others under the bus, kissing up to management, and don't care how you are treated as a person then please go right ahead and apply because you'll fit right in and be happy there.