Deutsche Bank reviews

There are many lifers, or long term employees, in the Global Markets division. The sales and trading program for incoming graduates cultivated a culture where people didn’t take 100% responsibility, they learned they couldn’t speak authentically and they didn’t need to keep to agreements. They have only known a firm where withholding truth and manipulating what you say to manage outcomes is the norm. They don’t know how great working life can be at a different firm or even a different industry.

Generally awful vendors for supporting technology infrastructure. Inflexible black boxed promotion process. Many projects that struggle with technical debt and lack buy-in from the business to fix these issues. Still cannot access the public Bitbucket website internally. No incentive to truly reward high performers in junior and mid-level positions, as compensation is tied to overall bank performance for those roles. Occasionally you may be able to get a (<10%) bonus on top of that. Truly abysmal stock purchase plan: extraordinarily high fees (It cost me 7% of my balance to sell), very low match, high minimum investment relative to stock price. Upper management and compliance make a lot of talk about money laundering and regulations with no visibility into why the bank is still hiring corrupt individuals. It is frustrating being told to not do X, Y, and Z and continually seeing headlines about people doing those exact, obvious things.