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One of the lesser known credit card companies, particularly internationally. Choosing to operate within its own network limits the company but also allows it to provide a much higher quality of service and ability to tailor products and services to a customer's needs. My personal issue is that things like flexible schedules and work/life balance are highly touted on the company's career site and i see that happening in some departments, but definitely not my own. I felt there was a little bit of false advertising.

- Lots of politics on the business side, which then bleeds over to the IT side. It's really demoralizing to spend so much time trying to win arguments and cover your own butt for fear of being the one left holding the live grenade at the end of a project - Awful technical training. We complain about it on each employee survey but the IT training staff is obviously incompetent - Crappy HR. Time off system is horrible and navigating the HR structure for help is a painful experience - lots of dead weight overall, many substandard employees hiding in the bureaucracy - The IT infrastructure teams (Oracle, Websphere, storage, network, unix/linux, etc) are awful right now. Even simple upgrades are a crapshoot. Many, many hours are lost simply reacting to botched updates or simple installs - There is no real audit in terms of project benefit. Most IT workers feel like the projects are selected randomly and that no one tracks the benefits after they go in.