Pros
Company - and IT - is growing Great Job Security Bonuses pay out regularly Executive team has great vision for future growth Future IT Growth may precipitate change
Cons
No accountability; under-performance, poor leadership, and toxic behavior goes unaddressed. CISO provides conflicting feedback, shifts blame, directly insults subordinates, creates conflict with peer teams, puts down previous employees, publicly chastises team members, does not honor calendar invites (all calendar invites must be followed-up with 1-on-1). CISO pontificates, picks on small details, and interrupts regularly. It is common to need multiple follow-ups to get through a small presentation. Quotes include "I have not been wrong in 40 years, I'm not going to start now", "I have socks older than <person's name>", "My grandchildren are older than your children", "Anyone could have done that, it doesn't take a brain surgeon" 4 people quit within 6 months and named the CISO as their #1 reason CIO has ZERO IT experience, he was previously a manufacturing plant manager Company values are discussed but are effectively meaningless within IT Leaders refuse to leave meeting rooms even after their reserved time has expired. Having so many contract workers detracts from continuity and quality. Just-in-time IT service does not work at Tenneco. Nothing happens without a formal project (and all associated overhead) Unreasonable expectations for individual contributors. Performance reviews do not account for what can be reasonably achieved. IT over-relies on a handful of "Key" contributors. If 5 specific people left Tenneco, IT services would be severely degraded. There is significant focus in capitalizing work. It feels forced and dishonest to capitalize labor that is clearly run-state work.