Pros
- There are decent people at Ingram Micro, and you can learn a lot in a short amount of time in the way of new skill sets and the business in general. - The finance teams (outside of my own) and other staff I’ve interacted with throughout the company are pretty personable, the kind of people you could see yourself enjoying a drink with and/or making personal connections outside the workplace.
Cons
- There are some in the office who clearly drink the corporate kool-aid, and the changed work environment post-COVID as a result of the last 2-1/2 years has made that more apparent. - The staff composition and approachability of the cloud finance team in particular has seen better days, based on hearsay; a manager and analyst in my department both abruptly left the company the same month I joined, and the existing management doesn’t exactly inspire their staff to perform above and beyond for the company as a whole. - One of the cloud FP&A directors is known to be moody, arrogant, and borderline destructive in their criticisms. They get very easily stressed and frustrated, and is prone to taking out their frustrations on other people, sometimes openly. - Management is very resistant to change or new ideas, no matter how minor. I was criticized for using XLOOKUP functions in an Excel spreadsheet instead of the more-limiting VLOOKUP. - They don’t maintain poker face well at all either. What they don’t make clear to you verbally, they’ll make clear with their deadpan facial expressions and moods, whether intentional or otherwise. - Cloud finance management makes the claim of wanting to be good managers and transparent, but they can’t maintain eye contact in conversations when they’re clearly biting their tongue or deliberately withholding/hiding information from you. - Communication skills in the cloud finance department leave much to be desired. They’ll tell you (or won’t tell you) one thing, then do a complete 180 a few days or few weeks later and blame you for not performing or listening to their guidance. - Cloud management is hard-nosed about working in-office beyond the company’s minimum required 2 days per week, yet spends the majority of the day enclosed in a private conference room/pod to isolate themselves from the distractions inherent in the typical open-office work setting. - Prior to starting at Ingram Micro, I had no reservations working in either remote, hybrid, or fully on-site environments, and also on the occasional weekend or holiday (which is expected of you there); however, the hard-line antics I’ve witnessed there would deter any on-the-fence people from being open to a hybrid or fully on-site work environment. - The CEO also likes to refer to his employees as ‘family’ in company newsletters, which is a huge red flag in any work environment.