OMG. Claiming to be in technolgy at Met is like a galley slave claiming to be a sailor - Programmer MetLife Employee Review

1.0
24 Jun 2014
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Pros

No thinking needed or wanted by managment

Cons

IT management is grossly incompetent, dishonest and trivial. The people doing the work never get credit. IT creates, then amplifies small issues into big ones, then rides to the “rescue” . If you got a big problem, first question is gonna be, “is the work in the budget?” Ugh! It’s just crazy what IT does because they have no clue what to do. IT management’s catch phrase is “at the end of the day we work for the business”. By end of the day they must mean 4:59 PM. Don’t dare help the users if you want to keep working there. Much better to tell the Emperor they have “nice clothes”. Management not interested in the truth. Management is interested in running up bar tabs. NJ jobs are either going to NC, or to India. Met would rather have the "cheap and cluelss" rather than the skilled.

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Cons

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