Strong CEO, weak company culture - Accounting Analyst BNY Employee Review

2.0
15 Aug 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits are pretty nice and vacation days are a-plenty. Also most people don't work very late.

Cons

Management is not supportive of the employees and treats its subordinates with disrespect. The department is severely understaffed and issues always arise due to the fact that there aren't enough people to complete the job yet no new people are being hired to help the situation. You are also not allowed for much downtime during work in our Finance department and any attempt to have a chat with a coworker or go out for a long lunch will be reprimanded and is considered unacceptable, you basically are expected to sit in your cubicle all day and not get up. The pay is also ver low and below national average.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Job only as good as immediate manager. Salary is Ok ish Benefit options are ok not great.

Cons

1) Retaliation is a way of life at this company going back to 2018 and becoming worse since 2) Mid level managers are very efficient at passively insulting the Teams they are responsible for. 3) It is nearly impossible to advance in the company. 4) When you try to post to another department - your Mid level manager will do the best to stop you from advancing. Some have close friends in HR that will even have you submit a new application in an attempt to accuse the other department of recruiting you. I have experienced this. 5) The only way to increase pay and experience is by leaving the company. 6) It use to be a culture of lets help others when there is a problem, now it is lets find who to blame for upper mangers rushing a project before all risks are identified. 7) If you are taking a new Job - professionally push for higher Salary once you are in raises will be very small.

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