Culture of fear and mediocrity in IT bedeviled by nonexistent leadership, embedded trauma from unlearned lessons - IT Analyst UPMC Employee Review

2.0
16 May 2026
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Pros

Decent benefits, affordable health insurance Very talented coworkers Paid time off University reimbursement Latest technology Some flexibility in managing your time

Cons

Fire-fighting approaches by management, short term vs. sustainable long-term thinking Inappropriate workload, Inappropriate distribution of work among team members "Not enough time" to mentor emerging talent, management too busy working on impression management Management takes the path of least resistance and dumps on competence aka "performance punishment" of an extra workload Touch-it-you-own-it mentality Gaslighting management that is not empowered to enforce accountability anywhere in the organization, "just get it done" even if it's an unsustainable approach or wrong decision Quit-and-stay mentality among remaining workforce Remaining workforce is disgruntled and not open to new approaches for example code source control The organization does not trust IT to deliver due to past trauma. You will be walking into a dumpster fire if you take a job in IT here, however there are definitely some teams where management protects their staff. Lord help you if you get into a dept. with insecure ego-performative "leadership"

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Cons

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2.0
14 May 2026
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Pros

..its a job helps pay the bills but want to pivot out to something new I'm very lucky until that happens my Team is awesome to work with!

Cons

Hire Educators!! Healthcare education and systems are failing its employees since covid we need to pivot and get back to helping constantly educate. We have Covid taught Nurses and Doctors not meaning badly but there is a disconnect -not understanding what is common in your scope of practice and not "knowing" how to do something or waiting for someone else to take care is lazy and if you are too afraid to ask for help you please don't be in the medical field. Ohh stop giving so many "chances" to people that should be fired a long time ago and not keep them bc "we need staff"-it hurts everyone with that one person!

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