Prudential reviews

- Lack of stability due to re-orgs, acquisitions, divestitures, outsourcings, offshorings, layoffs and voluntary departures have made company a less attractive place to work - Employee retention is an issue and company is doing little to change that, young talent faucet is being turned off while institutional knowledge of long term employees is walking away - Top heavy company with a lot of organizational inertia, some more senior employees are disconnected from daily business activities or more interested in preserving their fief than improving processes and thinking in new ways

* Too much corporate gibberish and politics - it's like Dilbert taken seriously here * People are way too quick to schedule meetings rather than just get people on a call or chat * Even if someone says something, there's a meeting scheduled or memo put out so everyone can CYA * Everyone is trying to ensure that blame or fault is clearly put at someone else's feet for everything * Impossible to find basic info on the intranet, so you're stuck with lots of institutional knowledge - "Jane may know, ask her." "Oh, Jane quit last year, maybe Andre knows?" "Andre is my direct report and he needs to have a Jira story before you can ask him a question", etc. * If you're not working on something that makes money, you don't really get many chances to do new technologies or processes * My managers were always too swamped to learn the technology for which they were responsible * My VP was very coarse and exacting, leading a lot of people to quit * Everyone is very corporate-sounding, lots of Kool-Aid drinking until they feel safe to talk to you * Regular VPs are treated like angry gods - you aren't meant to talk directly to them, they get handled with kid gloves by junior VPs/directors/managers, and as such they don't get the whole story of what's going on