American Express

Large company experience. Opportunities to learn (but not practice).

Low pay, very low diversity, and an unbiased outlook from mid-tier management. It only works well if you join as a vendor employee, work for several years, and then convert. There's no stake in people, poor team culture, and no work-life balance.

There are no checks and balances on mid-tier leadership. There are no peer review concepts. All standard industry practices around people management are a facade. Professionals are at the whims and fancies of their leader. Very poor professional ethics are present in mid-tier leadership.

Mid-tier management, almost 90-95%, consists of transitioned Indian vendor employees who bring their baggage and old relic practices with favoritism. You have to belong to the inner circle to progress any further.

Treat people who work for you as humans and your assets. Learn what value they bring to the table and use them wisely, not like a spoke in the wheel. Improve your appraisal process, which is based on pre-historic bell curves and borrowed from atrocious Indian vendor companies.