Toxic managers and CYA culture - Anonymous employee Kyndryl Employee Review

1.0
Mar 11, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It's remote and you get health insurance.

Cons

Do not work here if you are UX. No resources or budget or processes. No access to users. Bringing up limitations gets you blamed for making excuses. Managers and PMs do the bare minimum and are rarely available. When they are, you get told to try harder or nothing can be done so suck it up. Very hostile and toxic communication styles. Super high turnover. The longest employees are either the managers who do no work and have the little guys to blame, or little guys who are in a binding contract rather than FTE. No one feels safe bringing up issues because they know they'll be met with a hostile or accusatory response. Management is literally delusional and claims there are no issues and believe the high turnover is due to anything but them. We work with a lot of teams in India and closed-door conversations are dehumanizing and exploitative of real employees. Please avoid at all cost for your mental health or have a exit strategy in place.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Remote work, vacation, coworkers are usually pretty chill, 3 months on the bench to look for a new job before you're laid off

Cons

10-11K planned to be laid off this year and they aren't going after the worst performers, they're just cutting out whatever section looks good in excel. Poor profitability. Constant reorgs. Say they're a flat organization but keep getting more and more vertical. the last manager I got transferred to took months to have a meeting with my group and when he did, it was only to let us know we were getting cut, never-mind that we had a presentation on how to save a couple million on a type of software license that the company had to have to do business. They still use a stacked ranking for employee review, so if your whole team had an outstanding year and surpassed every goal, only 5-10% will be graded as outstanding and 10-15% will get expects more. Even when I got into that 5-10% exceeds, the raise for that year was still only 2%. One year I got a promotion from band 4 to 5, still only a 2% raise. Your pay will be as flat as a plains state. After 15+ years in this company, it feels like leaving an abusive relationship. Yes, it's not all bad, but you have to recognize that it still wasn't good for you.

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