Where careers go to die - IT Organization U.S. Financial Technology Employee Review

If you are not a manager or above, any opinion or expertise you have will be flatly ignored. The only freedom you have here is to do exactly what you are told by management. Your skills and expertise that you were hired for matter nothing after you join the org. Cronyism is rampant. No one gets promoted here. They only hire managerial level positions and above from the outside. Too many managers and zero freedom to exercise your expertise. They love to lie and tell you how "our people are out best asset." If this were even remotely true, they would listen to the ideas of the people that do the work on how best to get something done rather than the falsely utopian views from managers and directors who routinely tell C-suite exactly what they want to hear. I've never worked at an organization before where so many people are so clueless about how things really work. Zero documentation on far too many systems and administrators have no clue how unhealthy their systems truly are. Management halfheartedly brings in initiatives to try to help, but they have no clue about what those initiatives really mean or are meant to do and they simply become another catchphrase they use to feel good and pretend they are doing something to make things better. Nearly everyone does the absolute minimum to get by and have zero interest in helping anyone else. I have never been so regularly and directly insulted by so many managers in my life. This place is truly the poster child for toxic work culture.