Visa

If you're looking to do the same thing for the rest of your life without growth or opportunities, you'll hit the jackpot at Visa. A cushy job where one day maybe nobody can tell you apart from the chair you sit on – you've been there that long doing the same thing. Bear in mind that the processes you follow to do this one thing, along with the people you work with, will change over the years, but you'll happily be doing the same thing till you die. If that is what you want.

Working in technology is probably the worst. Fighting for promotions under the new I.T. (Indian Technology) leadership is like piranhas fighting over a morsel of stale, week-old dead fish. This amazing leadership team has used everything in their arsenal to motivate every well-paid employee to leave. They're laser-focused on attracting interns and college grads. Their reasoning is they'd like to bring fresh ideas and new blood. Which basically means one or both of two things:

1. They admit to not being able to motivate existing employees to innovate.
2. They are wanting lower employee costs across the board and, when people become ready for promotions in a couple of years, it's best to phase them out or block them until they leave disgusted, then get some new cheap hires.

Burn and churn. They've also decided to get rid of consultants who knew what the hell they were doing and bring in Wipro (Indian contractor) for technology services across the board, of course at cheaper rates. Which just means less diversity, fewer people whom you can actually understand when they speak with you, and you-get-what-you-pay-for service. Short of driving outside Home Depot to see if any day laborers can help in their I.T. shop for the day, the CTO, Rajat, has done everything else to cut costs and, of course, run this thing into the ground. The results show in the internal and external products portfolio.

BTW - I keep saying Indian because that's what the entire technology department is. It's not a racist comment; I am Indian myself, but clearly, diversity is non-existent in their technology group. Which means very biased cultural thought processes are pervasive.

Leave. Actually, that's the only advice I have.

This batch of Indian technologists have come from other companies where they've tried these wonderful cost-cutting measures, failed or faced resistance, and decided to go find the next company to ruin. And now they're here.