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Its such poetic irony that a company that prides itself on security is full of insecure people! I have never witnessed an environment full of people who are so condensending,rude, and passive aggressive to each other in meetings designed to complete technical initiatives. I have never worked at a company that promotes keeping your mouth shut and not speaking up when there are clean inefficiencies with processes and procedure. 

When you apply for a position, you expect that the role and responsibilities are fully identified and you are going into an established situation. What you don't expect is enter a warzone where people are against implementing Agile philosophies into their work streams simply because they are content with being old fashion. What you don't expect is for your manager to 

If you are young and come from an Agile company RUN AWAY AS FAST AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE! They will act like they like your energy but secretly conspire to get you out due to their insecurities (and prejudices). People are moved around to different teams so much, there isn't a chance to improve team vvelocity. When a delivery team purposely skips demos only to have the end users complain about the product delivered, causing piles and piles of technical debt, you know you are working in a dysfunctional IT department. 

 I predict that soon there will be a max exdous in that company when Executive finally put their heads in the weeds and see how poorly their business is being ran. Its truely a shame too because they have really nice products and do a great job with bank security.

The overall company is great and enticing, however, when you get to the position, it wasn't that great. I was a temp to perm employee. My contract wasn't picked up, but these comments are how I felt prior to that. 
They hold employees VERY strictly to QA and error rates, but there is too much "gray" area around the QA. You are given different processes by different people. Then they will turn around and say they didn't tell you that. And forget about being able to bring this up. I stated I would go with what QA verbiage we were given, and that was taken as an offense.
You are not allowed to make any errors on your work, however, when there are errors, there is really no way to know what happened, and if you try asking to get more clarification, you get attitude. The Processors can use any information they find anywhere, but you are limited in what you have access to on the phone. Example of an error I was "dinged" for: Old vs Olde
Every communication myself AND the Temp Agency got was that I was doing great, and even though there were a few things I was needing to work on, I was being proactive. 
However, I also made the mistake of having to call out. I was so sick that I couldn't even get out of bed, so I had to call out for 2 days. There was one morning I was late. I accept that, but the last "offence" was when my car broke down. My Supervisor told me it was fine for me to take care of getting to the shop and all that, and to leave early. However, that, apparently, was not the case.
Some people are allowed to get away with things that others cannot. 
Ex: We were all told that no phones at our desks. Some will get in trouble for, and others not. I watched my Supervisor walk up to someone on their phone and when he apologized, she said it wasn't a big deal and not to worry about it.

Early Warning is growing… it’s nearly doubled in the past two years. That will continue with the launch of the Zelle Network, related opportunities and the consistent support of existing products related to financial industry security. 

There are opportunities to help with committees to grow the culture... social, community outreach and professional development. Fresh fruit on Wednesdays, a Concierge and Third Thursday Happy Hours. 
 
Health insurance is great. There is a wellness program where you can earn a cut on the cost of your health insurance by being, well, healthy! PTO is good. 

There is a crying need to step up the technical expertise all around and the number of fresh, new hires is helping on that front.

There is a lot of opportunity to be creative and implement new approaches, if you are driven to socialize your ideas. There are lots and lots of opportunities to try new approaches and streamline existing processes. Because of the recent growth, HR is really swamped and lots of people are new with fresh ideas. Hang in there and be persistent to snag a spot in this growing company.

Worked at Early Warning for numerous years. Great working environment, opportunity to promote/advance. BUT there's a downside the TPRM group is a mess. The management is confused doesn't understand what they're doing, but great senior and executive management. HELP HELP or JUST RUN RUN far away. 
If you're looking for an opportunity to advance and move into a role that will give you a challenge then EWS is a great company to try that. You'll learn a lot about regulations, policies, and risk. Learn a lot and move up really fast if you know what you're doing. Benefits are pretty good and HR makes sure they keep it at a decent price. HR is does a great job at follow up and making sure they answer any questions related to benefits, day-to-day worries, or payroll questions. Executive management is GREAT they know how to move the company in a forward moving direction. Some managers need to be reconsidered for their roles they haven't a clue what they're doing.

The company lacks direction at all levels. There were frequent leadership changes in the short time I worked there, including a new CEO, CMO, CPO and more. This led to multiple rounds of layoffs of good employees so new Chief Officers could make their mark. This also caused frequent changes in strategic direction with projects abandoned for the next big thing. The company wants to be a fintech player, but it is owned by seven huge banks so getting things approved takes forever. Senior Managers are not empowered to take initiative and the culture is extremely conservative. The corporate structure is the opposite of quick and nimble. They claim to be "people first" but are quick to lay people off in order to hit revenue targets. What a joke.

Overall I would say it's a great company to work for but there are some areas of the company that I believe are toxic environments including Internal Audit. Most of the Internal Audit team seem to be very politically conservative and they will let you know it. No diversity within that work group. I believe in the CEO and think he will take the company into a great direction but I don't believe some of the executives are held accountable including the Chief Audit Executive. If you are willing to take the risk, two departments I'd recommend are HR and Sales/Marketing.. Two departments I would avoid are Internal Audit and Internal Audit.

Great people to work with and extremely talented technical people.  The future of the company itself is bright and will continue to grow.  As any growing company, re-organizations are necessary to find the right leadership to achieve company goals.  The hardest part of the job is lack of resources to meet the demand.  Overall, the company is a great company and it is solid.  It is owned by seven of the largest Banks in the country.

They truly set you up to fail!   I was supposed to get a one on one 2 months ago and never did.  If you ask a Manager a question and then another one you will get two different answers!  No wonder they have a horrible turn around.   I spent most of my night listening to the guy next to me talking about drinking at lunch and watching my Manager laugh, and the same guy talking to consumers and wanting to shoot them.  
An environment a person would feel safe in.

Even though I worked about 10 years in Early Warning Services, and overall I enjoyed working there along with some reservations, had learned a lot, upper management made decisions to dismiss multiple position at a time citing company strategic changes, nothing with performance I consider was rude, unfair, and uncalled for. This has been a culture in Early Warning that I have seen in my tenure and at the end I was caught in the culture. Lots of employees are openly engaged in politically charged conversations and sometime judge peers who are not thinking like them.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Giving my notice after 6 years of dedicated work.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Constant change in management and hiring of Executives, VP;s, Directors

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
In the beginning it was good, at the end we were thankful for COVID and could work from home and not have to deal with the chaos of the executive management team.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Busy with meetings and work with developers on customer on new work.

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