Bank OZK reviews

1. InfoSec and regulatory requirements often make it difficult to complete tasks efficiently or use the best tools. Everyone is issued a Surface Book with a non-administrator account. You can’t use Docker/VMs, Chrome extensions/incognito windows, Slack, Google Docs, Spotify, and a lot of other software that most of us take for granted at other companies. Nobody can access mail on personal devices or outside of the VPN. Of course, these types constraints aren’t specific to Bank OZK and in fact apply to most highly regulated environments. 2. Labs puts a lot of emphasis on culture, but it’s not for everyone. Most people in Labs are in their early twenties and/or don’t have families, and spend a lot of their nights/weekends working. These are often the same people that set many of the expectations of the Labs team. Working for Labs is tough for those with a growing family seeking a stable environment, due to the pure performance-focused mindset of management and the lack of paid parental leave. 3. In my opinion, Product Managers have far too much responsibility and are severely over-worked. They’re usually the ones still in the office at 7pm and sending emails on the weekend. In addition to steering overall product direction, they also assume the role of QA, BA, ScrumMaster, and UI designer. Because of these expectations, they often try to control a bit too much of the development and design decisions that should really be left up to those with an expertise in those fields of knowledge.

Almost too many to list. I will try my best. They will sell you on this to be an innovation lab where you can work with different technologies but that is the farthest from the truth. You are not even allowed to download a chrome extension. You can only use a surface book no other option. The salaries are below average, and benefits are horrible. Management is absolutely terrible, for most of the middle management they are extremely inexperienced and this their first or second job. They have very dry, hard to interpret humor that honestly comes off as very insulting. They claim to be very flexible which is also the farthest from the truth. My advice, please read all reviews for the innovation labs before ever considering this position. Middle management will write code that is horrific and full of bugs and blame your team. Victories are never celebrated, EVER. This is the first glass door review I ever had to write to warn others. I would say the culture is terrible, the developers want to make it positive but management appears to be blind. The best way to describe this place is extremely corporate with absolutely no corporate benefits.