This review pertains to the headquarter operations - as branch employees may have a far different work experience as they have little to no involvement with these teams.
Unfortunately, the executive/leadership within this company is so incredibly toxic.
With caution to details, heres what I learned:
- the executive team and upper management are made up of 2 parts: a clique of executives from a Florida credit union, and a clique of people who have never worked anywhere else and have no experience on how to manage teams effectively. Both parts equally micromanage, place blame on lower level employees, and have this weird obsession with power trips and titles.
- My first manager was under the IT department, which made sense for my role. But due to some office politics I still do not understand, I was reassigned under the VP of Project management. I was often reminded that "being under her, I was protected..." which was always weird to me, until I realized the SVP of IT seemed to have a preconceived notion of me that caused him to dislike me. There have been many discussed situations where the SVP of IT has treated employees extremely poorly and disrespectfully.
- The level of micro management because of the lack of SOPs, causing the need to involve 14 different VPs for every decision, caused the project to be delayed by 6 months. Because everyone wants to be involved in the decision, but not put in the time and work or resources to achieve it.
- Every week it seems that another VP position is created with 1 direct report, which is typically the person who gets blamed for everything.
- Team members constantly told me how I "should be fearful of the C team" which is just a disgusting environment to create. Its really sad, because I saw a lot of potential in joining this team, but as I hear of others leaving due to the same toxic circumstances, I'm glad I saw myself out.
Also, its been 2 months and HR still hasn't sent my belongings - they must have a long list of employees leaving that its taking so long.