- Low pay relative to the scale you deliver at as an Analyst.
- Analyst salary has not changed in 10 years.
- Cut out CL10 from the ladder, then significantly slashed the salary for CL9.
- Almost zero pay mobility outside of promotion.
- Not many managers appear to truly grasp just how dire cost of living has become for Analysts. If they do, they are not vocal about it.
- Long hours expected as part of the culture. But it's all your *choice* to do extra work or upskill.
- Some of the culture and community bits feel like lip service due to lack of Analyst pay keeping up to cost of living.
- 'Side of desk' expected.
- Poor culture around deep work; expected to be fairly available all the time in the work day, expected to regularly be in 2 places at once, yet deliver results that only come from deep work.
- Outside of nice little bubbles, shark tank culture for the most part.
- You are a disposable cog; too valuable to have any true autonomy over your own career, but not valuable enough to pay properly. Yet they will sell the lie that you are in charge of your career.
- They can and will, with zero regrets, yeet you off great projects for reasons completely unrelated to your performance, unless your manager fights like hell to keep you - which is a massive waste of your time, your managers time, and is just generally wasteful and puts delivery at risk. And then ironically and conversely, you can wind up stuck in a bad role for a long time that you have to claw, beg, plead and invoke payment for every favour you've ever done, and fight with everything you have, to get unstuck.
- Weak checks and balances for seniors who think it's cool to talk to juniors like sh*t as a default and for no reason; you have to risk standing up for yourself and hope you do it in a way which minimizes the risk of it biting you in the a*s/someone equally or more senior likes you enough to protect you if it comes down to it.
- Frequent structure changes that can impact you in ways you don't understand until it's too late (review is bi annual and a big change could come in mid way that you're meant to adapt to, but it's just not feasible to adapt in time without effectively resetting the clock in terms of relationship building/being on a project long enough to be a candidate for promotion. Which brings you back to the pay problems.
- Forced negative reviews; every round, someone has to get a bad grade - common everywhere - but here, it can be you, even if you are fully chargeable and performing well, but you get a weak Career Counsellor and no-one in the room knows you enough to vouch that you're good. And they make it a big secret about who's in the room, so it's hard to be visible to the right people. Which is probably a round about way of forcing you to push yourself to exhaustion being as visible as possible in as many rooms as possible.
- The seniority scale is huge and it can feel very vulnerable talking to someone so many levels above you, even when they try to be friendly, it can feel fraught.
- Promotion is opaque, the path is fragile, and whilst you do have to be undeniably competent to get it, it seems to most often favour the obedient and sycophantic, rather than genuine innovators who get stuff done and solve real delivery problems - they do get promoted too - but seemingly less fast/often.
