Local Moscow IT center management very incompetent
Pros
Office space is excellent Rank and file colleagues are quite smart and friendly Pay is competetive
Cons
Senior management in Moscow IT center is very much involved in covert discrimination and political activism at the expense of quality - they push out of the organization by all means the smart, effecient employees that deliver results to the Bank's global clients and get praise from them, and replace these staff with the mediocre members of their own preferred demographic groups. If you are a Christian male in Mosow IT your chances of being promoted to anything higher than Vice President level are very slim. They don't notice you, they deride you, they keep you at arms length, withhold important information from you to make you look bad etc. All your achivements are ignored and any small mistake is magnified publicly with the purpose of driving you out. However, members of Management's own demographic group are allowed to behave obnoxiously and can do no wrong, while they are given high performance evaluation ratings and compensation. Global management is presented with bogus progress reports, data is often made up and covered up just to meet the deadlines. Planning out and thinking before acting is an unknown concept in Moscow IT center. The organizaion is being run by stressing everyone out and hysterical fits if things are not moving fast enough to meet the changing demands, that often change 5 times a day (literally).