Old fashioned culture - Software Development Manager MetLife Employee Review

3.0
Dec 4, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Great new campus, great people, some interesting challenging projects. Salary at market level, annual bonus. A lot of open positions, pretty easy to convert from a consultant to an employee.

Cons

Hard to get a promotion based on merit and performance, all jobs are given to old-timers. Most of the managers spent their entire careers ate MetLife, never saw anything else and are unable and unwilling to drive change. Very little attention to the development processes and tools, all energy goes into managing projects and budgets. The development tools are mediocre, no tracking of enhancements, defects, tests cases. No real quality assurance. Business controls all aspects of application development without understanding what development means. The team work is not encouraged or valued, all rewards and evaluations are done individually and usually the worst team players get the most praise. The senior management seems ok and are definitely trying to do the right thing but it can't be done without massive cultural change that will focus on team work and modern development principles.

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Good support for new people managers were very helpful and always available

Cons

Micromanage every second of your time; have to put in a request to go to the bathroom and wait for someone to grant it Expect you to put exceptions to your time after your shift ends on your own time Half hour lunch by the time I brought my lunch or heated my leftovers and went to the bathroom. I barely had time to wolf it down. Unrealistic call times Systems are horrible and crashing all the time expect you to be in at least 15 minutes before your shift unpaid to set up all the programs on your computer

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