Strives to be Innovative, but Still Bogged Down by Bureaucratic Culture - Senior Software Engineer BNY Employee Review

3.0
Nov 15, 2017
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Pros

- Good work/life balance - Strives to keep current - Pays lip service to innovation

Cons

- Career advancement is slow, almost nonexistent - Bureaucracy and politics is everywhere, it's almost impossible to do anything without stepping on toes, and getting pushback

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Pros

Some of the internal platforms have dev teams that would rival any other tech company. Can learn a lot if you end up on one of those teams.

Cons

Completely crap shoot as to if you land on a good team or a completely incompetent one. If you're on a bad one good luck. On a bad team you can expect vague work requirements and huge work loads with unmanageable delivery timelines. Also they're outsourcing to India heavily. Also also, most senior management is completely out of touch with reality and don't understand the tech stack they own (more you interact with them the more frighteningly obvious it becomes). HR is completely incompetent, of course, it's an open secret at the bank.

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