Fire your CIO / IT for Allstate Canada - Director, Product Management Allstate Employee Review

1.0
3 Feb 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great company, somewhere you can stay long term as long as the ongoing toxic issues in IT are actioned.

Cons

Incompetent and inexperienced CIO. Her character is to bring you down if you don't agree with what she wants you to do, you'll have a target on your back. - Unable to make decisions and uses a voting method across her direct reports. - Does not assume responsibility for anything, looking for someone else to blame. - Disregards advice from experienced and skilled staff if they don't align with what she wants. - Hundreds of thousands (if not millions) spent on outside consultants and firms to provide recommendations, which end up aligning with internal recommendations, then doesn't implement any of them as it doesn't align with what she wants. - Arbitrary promotions to people without merit nor experience, as long as they are ready to say YES to everything. All while top performers wait/watch from the sidelines (and eventually leave). - No action taken for top performance (in the top right quadrant of their talent management framework); which suggests these employees should be promoted or invested into year after year, instead she'll find ways to lower their status in the framework so no action should be taken (against the support of peers, managers etc.) - Numerous complaints from directors, managers, individual contributors to HR about her actions have resulted in no action, unbelievable!! This place is toxic, and it comes from the top. I have never in my decades of work come across such a vindictive and incompetent leader who doesn't want to listen to her team. For anyone looking to work here, it IS a good company, unfortunately in IT it is a miserable experience. Most top performers / loyalists have already left as it became unbearable. To add to the mix, they lost their best employer status and even when they had it, the folks in IT couldn't believe it with everything we are going through.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

- I haven't been micromanage this bad since working in a call center!!! - the tools you use to do your job feels like micromanagement. Its very slow moving as well. Every thing takes so long to load while you're trying to speed through your work. - you will receive an email about every single little thing you did wrong - you will not receive praise for anything - you will need to protect yourself by maintaining documentation of what was asked of you, because it will be later explained that it doesn't matter what was said, you should have researched it yourself (even when you're brand new). - when they are wronf about a reprimand they just gave you, don't expect a reply or an apology - they will make sudden changes that severely impacts your job at a moments notice and wonder why you are behind - I was advised a manageable workload is 20-30 claims. My whole team had 90+ claims. - The turn over rate is exceptionally high. Over the course of a year I started 7 people quit within. 3 additional people were fired. - you're going to beg for help and they aren't going to help you, and they are going to tell you that YOU are the problem. - currently, all the hires are being shielded from the hot mess. They are trying to change things by pushing all the people who suffered through the mess they created to put a positive spin on the job and I guess preserve moral. - the job itself wouldnt be difficult (because the work is relatively easy), but its VERY disorganized. You will feel like you work in a call center, but this time, you have to return voicemails, emails and text messages. - 2nd worse job experience in my entire life - AND THE PAY IS BELOW INDUSTTY STANDARDS!!! There are no bonuses.

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