Challenges and Opportunities - Assistant Vice President MassMutual Employee Review

3.0
15 May 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

* Some great people * Stated organizational appetite for change and reinvention * Mutual company (long term perspective) * Doing some innovative things (for the industry)

Cons

* More and faster change than organizational culture can support * The conflict created when the culture (old, slow, WASP, consensus, failure-averse, change-averse) is at odds with leadership's aspirations (fast, fresh, diverse, innovative) * Lots of layoffs, some of which were poorly managed and messaged

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Cons

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Pros

• Decent benefits • Some good individual contributors and colleagues.

Cons

• Extremely high workload — regularly expected to work 60-80+ hours per week • Constant scope changes with unrealistic expectations and impossible deadlines • Upper management was disconnected and showed little concern for employee well-being • Highly political environment where internal politics often outweighed actual performance • Mass layoffs that eliminated roughly half the engineering team, followed by offshoring many roles to India — even after many of us had dedicated 4+ years to the company • Extremely stressful and unsustainable culture leading to widespread burnout

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