Mastercard

- Layoffs without any proper reason. You will be charged for bad decision of Product Manager/VP/Director. - Toxic/Unhealthy work environment - Politics - Your Technical Manager is NOT technical (Beware) - Micro-management - Expecting to wear multiple hats with no recognition - Unhealthy leadership dynamics - No work life balance. - Long hours because of VP/Directors are in USA time zone. - IJP is myth - Join Mastercard on your own risk. I left the company without any job offer for my mental health.

DQ (Decency Quota) seems to be on the way down in recent times and I am starting to feel more like a number than a person! Many of the processes are overly bureaucratic with people seeing it as their job to stop you doing the wrong thing rather than actually helping you to do the right thing.

Lots of micromanagement, difficult to discuss with HR always keen to help the company not the employee and to be on the manager side.

Difficult to get promoted here

As this is a product base company too much of work load

Lower growth more bea ureocratic

Pretense of less work than there actually is.

As a large corporation, decision-making can be slow, and processes may be rigid—especially compared to startups or smaller tech firms.

No cons as such , ,. , ,

If you are a people leader your ability to do logical and right thing for the business (and often teams) would be sabotaged by mindless P&C (HR) subjectivity. Often is hard to distinguish if P&C is Finance, Security, IT, Law - what ? Anything but “People” in the phrase that stands as People & Capability