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senior project manager

Alkami Technology

The Delivery team is rotten from the top-down thanks to insecure "leaders" (they use this term freely without actually understanding the meaning) who choose to hire and favorite equally insecure team members so their authority isn't challenged or threatened. If you are a smart, educated and talented female, then you better learn to shut up and kiss a-- or you'll be beaten down both psychologically and emotionally until you are obedient. Independent thinking is discouraged. Most people in Director-level or higher positions are completely unqualified for their roles, and they do not care about professional development outside their own little, internal world. HR doesn't care about you, they care about the company's reputation - you are a number. Management is fake and lies and manipulates (or hides) data on a regular basis in order to be more attractive to clients and investors. The free food is slightly higher quality than McDonald's. This place is a joke. 

DO NOT WORK HERE IF YOU VALUE MENTAL HEALTH! 

I deeply regretted my previous comfy position at  a prior company to move here because I thought it'd be great for my career. 100000% a mistake. 

You will be BURIED with work, have nightmares about it, and then debate whether you should take a shot at the unemployment line. 

The culture is incredibly toxic. The only thing that management cares about is metrics. The job itself is already hard as it is, yet Management keeps pushing for more changes to make our job harder (call templates, SupportLogic). Yeah they have unlimited PTO but you get PUNISHED with more work once you return. It's easy to have a backlog of 40+ cases per month. So many people I know quit within a year and questioned their career choices. 

Also, don't even think about getting training here. It's nonexistent. It's actually scary because management has told me that it's fine if we make updates and take down the whole bank! It happens! 

Not the best place for Project Managers. It's a toxic environment with weak leadership. PM's are overworked, beat down, and treated very poorly. Morale is extremely low and continuing to decline. The position is more of a Technical Program Manager where you have to do Technical Consulting, Triage, Testing, QA, Configuration, Conversion, Failures, Project Management, Implementation, have knowledge of Network and Environments, and so much more with unreasonable timelines, no guidance or support, no training or processes, with a product that is constantly broken or flat out doesn't work. PM's get in trouble internally when other departments or resources do not do their jobs.  Leadership knows how frustrated and upset PM's are, yet they do nothing and continue to beat down on the Project Managers. They are fast to fire or put on probation PM's who try to encourage or present ideas on how to better processes and morale.

The supposed great culture is a joke.  With the micro management and nonstop pressure, working there is an awful grind.  Management 'cliques' are big and if have to report to one of the managers in one of the cliques, you mean absolutely nothing to them because they have their buddies.  The fact that (decision-making) management is largely non technical, doesn't help matters either. Lots of poor decisions and laughable support for the underlings.  Trust is an issue as well.  I don't feel trusted and have had to provide proof I was not lying at times.   Very unprofessional.

The 'unlimited time off' is a joke as well.  You can never get any meaningful time off.  You will work for long periods without a break at Alkami.



What is the best part of working at the company?
Great place to be. I'm able to enjoy life better.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The down time. There are times you have to stand down. With nothing to do. But there's always something to do.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work environment I work with one other person isolated from the world in a data center.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Doing tickets that require either replacing equipment or troubleshooting a specific that is alerting us on a tech portal. Giving us jobs to do with step-by-step instructions on how to complete the task at hand.

Alkami is by far one of the best places I have worked. The culture here isn't based off buzz words but actually lived every day from the top down. The company gets feedback from their employees and actually implements the changes. Be prepared to work hard and be challenged but also be surrounded by like minded coworkers who won't let you down. The benefits are awesome with stock options, free lunch and unlimited paid time off. Only work here if you want to do big things - I'm proud to call myself an Alkamist.

Alkami is a growing company and is going through some of those growth pains. 
The new CEO is working to help everyone see the need to focus on customer experience, but there are still hiccups with balancing the need to push features out quickly.
One issue is with the development of frontline leaders. No clear understanding around promotions. There appears to be a "good ol' boys" promotion process, and leadership doesn't do a good job of developing future leaders. People are now in high leadership positions and decisions they made at lower levels of leadership are being felt to this day.


Leaders are only interested in hiring their friends.  When the friends are hired a toxic environment then begins to boil up.  Alkami's platform is NOT stable and all the work put into stabilizing it has made it better but this place is NEVER going to be able to get it to a place where customers are happy.  All the good talent is being driven away from HR to developers to sales people.  Don't believe the hype this place is going down hill FAST!

Turn-over rate for PM's is 70% and no one within the team can be trusted. The environment is toxic and employees sit around and talk about one another. This includes the director and chief delivery officer. Alkami has lost A LOT of talented people because of the toxic environment. I would take a chance on collecting unemployment before working at Alkami. Alkami is PIP central.

Good people, opportunity to learn bleeding edge technology, can advance in many directions in the company, but if you fall behind for whatever the reason, good luck keeping up and staying on.  I fell behind due to family issues that required me to be away.  After that I wasn't able to catch backup.

Also, the urgency is close issues.  Not resolve them, so if you do work for them, close the tickets and don't worry if the clients issues are resolved.

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