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Work-life balance is good in certain teams/groups. Good PTO and training opportunities. Executive leadership (CEO, CIO, CDO, etc.) is very good; they are trying to change the work culture. Female and LGBTQ friendly. Good brand name.

Middle management (Directors, Sr. Managers) are the worst. They play office politics and use the company/org to promote themselves.

Unethical and unresponsive HR team.

Outdated technology. They are trying to move to the cloud extremely slowly.

Caste system (white people, and to some extent Indians, get promoted), even though they are mediocre. Rampant favoritism and cronyism.

Too many re-orgs in the Analytics division.

Talented Black people and Hispanic people are used for tokenism (to show off how progressive the company is; it's all show and mirrors. There is no real serious effort to increase Black and Hispanic employees).

Typical mid-west mentality. Executive leadership is trying to pull the company to the 21st century.

Train middle management better to handle diverse teams and modern technology.

Build small, agile teams.

Don't promote mediocre middle managers just because they've been with the company for a long time.