* the Bi-Annual 'Layoff Lottery' (February, every other year; it often makes no sense at all, but Fiserv aquires a ton of small companies, then purges a percentage of all untenured ( >2yr ) employees. This apparently happens every other year, so if you start this year, you're good until 2015, I guess.)
* the lack of cohesive documentation in the specialized software at hand
* the overwhelming desire to install untested (or at best barely-tested) software into live client projects.
* the far-too-siloed departments (which often turns a 5-minute task into a literal ordeal that can last weeks or more)
* a highly-disconnected management that prefers platitudes over vision and focus.
* The medical benefits quite frankly blow goats; you're better off getting your own policy if you can. (tobacco users take note: you get to pay $70+/mo extra for your habit. No idea what Obamacare is going to add to that)
* An unrealistic project schedule algorithm (not taking into account the heavily-siloed structure which often prevents productivity more than it assists it).
* No-notice changes in rules, with no attempt at a transitionary period (e.g. discontinuing work-at-home policies entirely without any warning or transition period).
* a sales department that over-sells clients, and expects everyone else to deliver on these often impossible promises.
* Your workload is variable - it varies from nothing to do (waiting on code, system engineers, the client, etc), to 18-hour workdays - yet management demands that at least 40 hours each week be accounted for in some form or other.
* A snake-in-the-grass HR team (note: this review is anon because when you get laid off, you are pushed into signing a "no disparagement" contract, else they withhold your severance pay. Nice of them, isn't it?)
