National Australia Bank Principal Architect Reviews

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Work life balance

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Role transparency and strategic vision is missing

Likes

Good people great culture and good growth opportunities

Dislikes

Not such i can think of

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

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Work Life Balance Quality of work Freedom of work

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Nothing for now

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Nothing

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Everything is bad, the work culture, the micromanagement, work pressure, even if you did not have volume , you have to work sit on your system for 8 hours continuously. No cab service shuttle services also are for specific time .

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

The office spaces look fascinating with fancy interiors, Senior management always promises good company culture and growth opportunities. Annual and quarterly parties are well planned, so you always feel like you are working in a grand organisation. Leadership will always motivate you and make you feel like you are working in a safe space, and one day going to achieve very big!

Dislikes

Firstly, the weird WFO propositions - some employees (favourites) can WFH even for months and some will have to report to office more than 4 days a week just for managers gratification. Secondly, The worst employee benefits I have ever seen in a company. No cab service, no pick and drop, a parking that only has space on weekends XD,no proper or stable food vendors and a cramped and mismanaged cafeteria where every thing (even cookies) are paid for by employees. Extremely poor management, leadership and management principles. Working at NAB India feels like nothing but a service based company whose soul client is NAB Australia. Right from hiring, to project alignment, to work-life management and promotion / appraisal of their employees, everything is directed by the foreign stakeholders, and the India based managers ('people leaders' as they refer) are only on paper. Their support, guidance and ability in terms of power is negligible and they work in a puppet fashion. Work allocation is often hefty and tiring, with minimum team spirit /colleague support. They follow a take your work and leave type of approach. The most common and normalised thing here is micromanagement. AU stakeholders are quite selfish and are often on multiple weeks of leave as they have hired YOU to work for 50 hours a week for them and get the work done. They have negligible respect for Indian employees and name-call them in private. Indian leaders and management will forget about the "outstanding culture" that they brag about when it comes to supporting their own fellow teammates. Overall, from what I figured from my 2 year time here is that the entire India unit started off by a group of buddies (all senior leaders and managers have had years of together working experience in the past). It's quite evident when you see them catching up outside office for drinks and parties much more often than you see them in meeting rooms. All leaders, directors and HR's are like a old family who are together on a mission to follow AU orders and set up their self driven kingdom in India because they never got that autonomy in previous work life....Read More

Work Details

Work policy: Depending on manager's moods.

Work timings: Strict Timings

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Some of the things such as heart beat survey is a good practice by the organization where you rate your managers and give feedback to organisation on how things are. It does have an impact on the managers and their attitude but is only effective where there is a big team and your manager is unable to identify who gave the negative feedback. For smaller team, they have figured out a way around these feedbacks by harassing their team members till the time they don’t resign or take an IJP. The organization promotes employees to take their leaves...Read More

Dislikes

The culture is bad, situation has gone from bad to worse here. They have hired bad leaders at the top who are impacting the overall employee experience, have zero leadership/people skills. Support functions are one of the worst functions to work with. Zero work life balance, i have been employed with them for 2 years now and while ihave 27 annual leaves i have hardly taken 10 leaves in an year because of the work pressure. Working on weekends is normal. Working a 12-16 hours shift is normal in many functions and you wont even get paid overtime. Bad language is being used on the floor, leaders turn a blind eye towards complaints. Basically you are left on your own to survive, they know you are in need and will not leave so quickly. Australia stakeholders are mad and will escalate on a daily basis for even the smallest of issues. Basically Aussie and not happy business is moving to Vietnam and India, and will do whatever is possible to make your lives tough...Read More

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Can do much much much better.

Dislikes

They hire non banking people at Senior VP level to manage hard core corporate banking ops. It is just not the right way to run a new corporate bank offshore unit. They run banking ops like a typical call centre and create useless pressure within 1 month of joining to meet outrageous targets like we are attending calls. They dont have a clear roadmap for their 2-5 year road map and are 100% dependent on onshore bosses. Whatever onshore bosses will say, the Indian leadership tends to agree them blindly without introspection....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

Hybrid culture

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No additional benefits apart from Salary . Politics . No transparency . No SOP of process . Multiple updates regarding the process every other day . Don’t join Team ocdd if you wanna grow in your career . Things are very messy in this process . Year end hike is like 0-5 percent . Leads are managers walks around with very small ego .

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Its a bullsh*t company

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Managers are jerks no work life balance They can you anytime even after work hours You keep slogging for more than 12 hours a day The most crap and fu**ol work place one can ever go to No bloody canteen No transport Brainless managers No promotion They make you work like animals promising they will give you an oscar but endup giving you lollipop worth 25 cents. Hospitality is very sugary Bunch of demented peeps running the business. Hoping no one wants to spoil their career and waste time....Read More

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

A lot is driven without ethics and professional transparency. The newly set-up India entity needs a lot to streamline the in terms of the ethical practices and employee centricity.

Dislikes

Red-tapism and Monarchial attitude of SLT. I hope Neeraj and Andrew sees this before it's too late and the India entity turns out to be a collapse.

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Very bad no work culture also, for same roles salary discrepancies are very high. Leaders are so biased with ex employees of ANZ and Natwest they formed groups and treat employees from other organisations very badly

Dislikes

Biasness

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.