The culture is a throwback to the 1970's, with senior management managing by top-down hierarchy, often with an iron fist. No one below senior level seems to question or challenge some of the decisions and thought processes of senior leadership, so therefore, trust and honesty is low.
This was once a holding company that had about 22 or so operating companies, then it decided to become "one company" and meld all the operating companies into one. Since there was no existing "one" culture, it's a mishmash of skeleton companies trying to figure out who they are. The leaders sometimes manage as if they are still an arms-length holding company.
There is little work/life balance. Many people work on vacations and constantly check email during the evening and on weekends. If you have a family, it can be very tough to work out a compromize.
Employee engagement, which had some promise a year ago, has been dismissed as a secondary priority on the back burner. Management seems to think that it's not that important to keep their employees engaged and happy, maybe because the economy is not recovering quickly. As echoed in many posts on this site, once the economy gets better and more opportunities come up in other companies and industries, there will be a large exodus from here, and then senior management will go to the underlings and demand why this happened, and heads will roll.
