Toxic Atmosphere with a Blame Culture - Manager Nottingham Building Society Employee Review

I should preface by stating I genuinely have no axe to grind with The Nottingham. I work for a truly progressive, forward thinking, friendly company. Working where I do now feels more like a community than a workplace and it has shown me the real difference compared to working at The Nottingham. There is no malice in what I am writing below but I want to and will tell the truth. In terms of work and conditions at the society the performance review process is a bad joke that is designed to ensure it is not worth the paper it's written on run by corrupt managers that are only interested in furthering their own careers and are happy to step on yours to do it. There are some brilliant people in the IT department that are very knowledgeable and care about providing the Society with high quality, secure systems. There are lots of people in the department that have been brought in from non-IT parts of the Society that are equally as good but unfortunately there are some of those that are clearly coasting and resting on the belief that they can't be fired, or simply say the right things and try to charm their way through their work life to have a job they simply do not deserve. These people are dangerous and I witnessed on more than one occasion where they put systems and customer data at risk. I wouldn't have an account with them. The department and the Society tries to pretend that they are progressive but nothing can be further from the truth with infrastructure from 2005 and processes and practices from 1985, working at The Nottingham is a frustrating mix of management not understanding modern technology and therefore unwilling to spend budgets where it's really needed to make the Society actually progressive. For instance, they were unable to cope with the current pandemic and couldn't support staff working from home. This is a very traditional building society - the archetypal financial dinosaur - and the development team tries to run itself as if it were a software house but has none of the ethics, practices or knowledge to pull this off successfully. In terms of working for a development department I have never known such a backward thinking, toxic place to work. Working for The Nottingham will mean you will be held back in your career, there is not one team lead or manager (especially IT and IT Development) that actually cares about anything except how to shift the blame when things go wrong, and trust me, they will, they only care about themselves and they will use you as a human shield to divert blame.