Got the right tech and talented people. Lacking career development path and good business model to pay people well. - Anonymous employee AIR MILES Employee Review

4.0
10 Aug 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Culture is definitely one of the biggest thing anyone will remember about LoyaltyOne. It cultivates open and engaged culture between associates, a lot of team building activities and encourages associates to volunteer and give back to society. Team members are really close and can hold on and trust each other. (At least in BT) - In the new agile model, everybody is team member and requires to do everything (basically full stack developer) and can learn a lot. - Using new technologies like Python, AWS, Spark, Scala, building a lot of API and trying to stay competitive in the tech industry. Your resume will be beautiful after coming out of L1 - You work with lots of smart young people, open to share knowledge - Trying to cultivate an open and honest culture (not sure if it's successful but at least trying) - Almost no OT

Cons

- Lacking career development path In the flatten BT structure, there is no title and no promotion. So it's really slow for people to develop within it (merit increase is 3%-5% at year end which is nothing as it hardly beats inflation rate). Higher management need to figure out a way to give people more motivation. You got the talented people and they are learning and contributing so much, you need to let them progress better than it is. Title does not matter but pay needs to reflect well of what people do. Sometimes you feel each person is doing 6 people's job(dev, qa, unix, dba, prod support, build & deploy) in a tradition IT world but they r not getting paid that well. - Pay is 20%-30% less than outside It's great for new graduate because they will be ok with low pay at the beginning and the strategy is to hire more new graduate/young people (60% of BT ,if not more, are in 20s). But if pay is not competitive with outside, Young smart people will leave in about 3 years. - Lacking good business model to generate more revenue Business needs to work hard to create new business model to generate better outcome for your customer which in return will generate more revenue to pay your talents inside. Otherwise it's not sustainable.

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Cons

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AIR MILES Response
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Thank you for the positive feedback. Our Associates are at the heart of our strong company culture and are truly what makes AIR MILES such a great place to work! We are glad to hear that you enjoyed the benefits and events offered to our Associates, as well as our remote-first working model. We appreciate your perspective on feeling as though your work makes a difference. We strongly believe that our people are our greatest asset and that the work done at all levels of the organization contributes to our success as a business. During our January Business Update, our Executive team shared our Strategic Imperatives for 2023 and the ways we will continue to scale as an organization to help Associates under the "big picture" and where their role fits in. We also recently introduced a new Goal Setting process to better align with our quarterly planning process, and to encourage more regular conversations about goals between Leaders and Associates. For Associates with questions regarding the impact of their role, we encourage you to speak to your leader or Manager Once Removed for guidance. Thanks again for your feedback, and all the best. Dimitri Benak - VP, People and Culture
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