The biggest problem here is the management. It seems like only popular people get any promotions and if they don't like you it's very apparent and they will make your life difficult. The hardest working people are often taken advantage of and then tossed aside and set up to fail and are given no opportunity to grow. If you get on the bad side of any of the managers count your promotion potential to be sabotaged. I've seen people who are not fit to manage get promoted and subsequently fired. While hard workers are not given any recognition. On top of that the trend lately is to reduce transparency and keep much of the team in the dark. There is also a problem where some managers have less experience then the people they manage, which causes some of them to remind them of their place.
The worst thing is the amount of favoritism displayed towards some employees and not others. Like a manager will celebrate some subordinates birthdays and not others,those same subordinates also have preferential treatment towards task despite having more capable people on the team.
There is also a problem with how certain people are held to higher standards then others which causes unfair assessments and reviews and the bais is clear. When employees report this to HR often times they end up being punished for defending themselves. Managers are also highly inconsistent with requests and often times not communicate in a timely manner and then nit pick and hold what you've done against you.
Working here has deteriorated my mental health since the favoritism is not even attempted to be hidden. The constant negative feedback and lack of recognition has made me clinically depressed. On a daily basis I pray that the managers will just not show up or quit because that seems to be the only way to move up or have a decent day.
Also everything falls on death ears, managers pretend to listen and then do nothing about the complaints. At the end of the day their group is unaffected by our mental health and anything to make sure that they appear as the ones that pushed the team to release a good product and forgetting to actually acknowledge who did things.
I'm also not the only one I know of various employees whose mental health has deteriorated and are on anti depression medication because of this.
This job should be a dream, but only if you fall into the right crowd. I would stay away if you value your mental health.
