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Pros
- Great pay and benefits - Highly capable co-workers - Variety of technical learning opportunities - Ability to develop in a well-rounded manner - High expectations
Cons
- slow technical movement - late night support rotation calls
Pros
Money ONLY. Benefits & money is all.
Cons
Literally everything else. No promotions or opportunity for growth. Nobody cares about you. Super weird and toxic company culture. One way this shows up over and over again is in the new HR/People policies they've implemented over the past 2 years. They’ve automated all their people management systems which are totally rigid and are unable to make simple accommodations such as to swap an hour to go to a doctor’s appointment, or switch a holiday so you don’t have to work on Christmas. The holiday policies are absolutely offensive. Our overnight shift workers are expected on Christmas Eve night and Christmas morning. Then they “get” to take their Christmas holiday on December 26th. How nice. Same thing for Thanksgiving. They work all night through Thanksgiving morning, (when to sleep then?) and then “get” a holiday the day after. (Not helpful). These types of nonsensical people practices show up time and time again, yet no matter how many times we bring it to management’s attention, they make no changes. It is truly demoralizing, offensive, and hurtful to the workers. They feel alienated and disrespected. Whereas previously we used to feel a connection to McMaster and a responsibility to have our employers back (because we believed McMaster had our back), we no longer feel this way. McMaster no longer has our back, and everyone I know now stays only for the pay and benefits. It’s sad.
Pros
Great pay, financial benefits. Cash and deferred profit sharing is unparalleled. No insurance premiums.
Cons
Required to work in office after being told they'd never make us come back because they "value employee's work-life balance." No choice where you work, constantly getting shuffled around to a new departments. So you constantly have new supervisors. AI is taking over everything and eliminating jobs left and right, but they "don't do layoffs." They just change the metrics and slowly squeeze tighter, until you break and quit. Or suddenly don't meet their metrics and they let you go. Have watched over 30 colleagues in my office be let go in the last 10 months alone. On average they lose 10/month, per office location. They don't like feedback. If you provide feedback regarding a process, you basically get put on their watchlist and eventually end up "not meeting expectations." You have no control over your schedule. Your breaks are dictated by a whole team that changes the times of your breaks constantly. You could get lucky and work a good shift, or get screwed and have to work a really late shift. They don't care if you have conflicts with childcare or anything. PTO isn't great and they're very strict about how you use it. PTO is supposed to also be used for sick time, so that's hard to manage. Especially with such a small bank to begin with. Eventually you quit or get fired. At the end of the day, if you're anything other than some form of management, you don't have any "transferrable skills" to list on a resume when you're struggling to find another job. You also have no upward mobility here. They don't promote internally. Almost all of management is hired externally as fresh faced college graduates with ivy league degrees and no management experience. It's so frustrating. No one knows how to do anything and can't get you a solid answer.