XiFin reviews

This place is horrible when it comes to Holidays and time off. This year (2011) we are not getting a single day off for Christmas. The boss says we have Sunday off already, and we do not have to come in Sunday. No holiday Monday! No holiday Friday! Even E Scrooge let his employees off on Sunday, and still gave a least one day off for Christmas. This is not a religious thing. It is an American day to spend time with your friends and family. We are not an critical store, fire dept, or eating establishment. How much would it hurt the company to give us a day off for Christmas? All we get is 4th of July, Labor day, Thanksgiving Day (the Thursday only - never a 4 day weekend), and normally New Years Day and Christmas day. This year we do not even get a day off for New Years Day ("you get Sunday already"), and we do not get a day off for Christmas Day. Before this, I was so proud I worked for this company, I used to think this company really cared. I cannot believe they are being so stingy, and petty.

> Upper Management: Lacking fundamental leadership. As an employee seems that upper M.s decisions are contradictionary and nonsensical. One day the want to go left, then then the next, its full right. >Tribal Knowledge: Everything here is learned, and understood by tribal knowlege. There is very little to no documentation, SOPs, ect. This creates a lot of problems between teams, as updates happen to the system, and there are no announcements or documentation. If you want to learn anything about a system in particular, someone who knows about it has to teach and show you. This means if you are a new hire, get ready for a fun few months.... >Management Loves ... More Management: Every team seems like they are completely overwhelmed with work right now. I would say that if every team had an unlimited budget (Or just a larger budget) they would all hire 3 more employees to help out. Yet, everywhere I hear, Management believes the solution to the problem is adding in a new layer of management.... (Hint hint, the solution to leadership isn't more leaders) >401k Vesting: 5 Year "Vesting" - If you don't know what that means I would google it. Basically you don't get your full 401k untill 5 years at the company.... >COVID: Handling of COVID has mixed reviews from me. Obviously hindsight is 2020, and I don't mean to nitpick decisions... but there were some mistakes. - As a tech company, many of our teams were able to transition to fully remote with no reduction in productivity. Myself and my team thought we did a really good job WFH, and thought it would be a long term solution. 4 Weeks in we were told to come back into the office... and the best reason why (I got directly from the CEO) was for "security" reasons.... Yet we've always had some team members working remote full time. Its painfully obvious that Upper Management just isn't with the times and does not trust its employees to work remotely. To me I see this as upper management yet again making a decision to go left, then halfway through, changing to right. - Covid Testing: A great Pro, which turned Con for me, was last week we were given free COVID test and Antibody test! Such a great idea and I am very thankful that they were able to provide this. The Con its the timing and implementation. If upper management knew they were going to test everyone, why didn't they wait two weeks and test everyone before they came back to the office? Again, a bad decision that I believe results in a less safe work environment for it's employees for a minimal gain in productivity. I don't think this was the concousl