Mastercard reviews

If you don't have any up high (with power) contacts and relationships, good luck getting anywhere. You will be passed over for every promotion and then get the carrot on the stick *you are almost there, but could do just a little more to really get there*, you can double the results of others and still just get a "good job go get em tiger, results achieved" at the end of the year with no actual movement forward for YEARS. You will be held accountable rightfully so to the employee conduct guidelines. Your peers that are not the same race/gender/friends with management will not. They will form cliques that you are not a part of and you will endure bullying and harassment and HR won't care. The ones that can get away with it will break policy and it will be waved off as a non issue, oh and you get to watch them get promoted for it too. Management will tell you to suck it up and remain professional. Have alternate political views to the company? Get ready to have their stuff shoved in your face all the time and guilt tripped for thinking differently. But they still "respect your views." It's a shame because this is a good place to work it's just brought down by human hypocrisy and favoritism with no ACCOUNTABILITY. It's almost a high, no middle school mentality that runs the place. This is a big deal because you spend more time with your co-workers than you do your own family and friends. If you have to spend it with hostile, cutthroat people it really presents a more difficult challenge than any job or task you are asked of in your career there.

Almost all MasterCard managers are solely interested in managing their internal image and reputation. They do this to the detriment of their reportees’ wellbeing and progress. I have seen this constantly demonstrated in Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and North America. No matter what your real value or contribution, if it is not a benefit to your manager or if you do not have a white knight to sponsor you, you will never progress. CEO Ajay Banga proclaims “take thoughtful risks”, however, I warn you, you will do so at your own peril. What he really means is, “make decisions only if your manager signs off on it”. While Ajay may publicly want an environment in which thoughtful risk-taking and decision-making is encouraged, his managers do the opposite. MasterCard is a den of fear and retaliation and only a place for people who put up and shut up for the sake of job security. Despite its CEO’s public and internal propaganda, MasterCard is backward and cultish and will never excel unless it removes its managerial overlords and employs managers who care about other employees and the company.