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Software Engineers - Beware! - Senior Software Engineer Early Warning Services Employee Review

1.0
Mar 20, 2016
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Pros

There is nothing to recommend this company as a Software Engineer. In 3 months at this company - I've maybe spent 2 days actually doing anything with code. If I'm looking for a pro - maybe its that salary was adequate. Not more than you can get anywhere else though.

Cons

Here's the boots on the ground reality: 1.) Deadlines are dictated. 2.) Forced OT 3.) Culture expects 45-50 hours a week 4.) Old Technology - and poor quality - they can't even produce regression tests for 5 year old software 5.) Software Engineers will do all QA - there is zero Quality support (OK - maybe some - they gave me a document template once!) 6.) PMO Will dictate your tasks and tell you - you will work weekends if the simple resource/hours division indicates it 7.) There is no reliable testing environment 8.) You will be on-call 9.) You will be responsible for Deadlines/Dev/QA/Delivery Instructions/Machine Definitions/Delivery and Production Support. You will be empowered for almost nothing. I feel like a total idiot for taking this job. Also I see one 5 star review - I don't know anyone who works there who felt anything like that. Take it for what you will.

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5.0
Jul 7, 2026
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Pros

Really solid company. Good high level leadership and the best culture ive seen. Runs like a start up so lots of opportunity for impact. Growth is everywhere and theyre supportive of continuing ed. Culture varies by LOB. I work in Paze and cannot speak to Zelle or Certos.

Cons

This is silly but I cannot stand the work laptops. Small little windows machines.

1.0
May 3, 2026
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Pros

Friendly coworkers, interesting problem space if you like finance and big data. In-office requirements but many show up after 10 or leave before 3.

Cons

Around the time of my exit, two people in leadership were fired. In my professional career I've never witnessed a firing that felt more like a humiliation ritual. They were paraded around the office and through all-hands meetings to aid transition (presumably for a new VP installing their replacement of choice), with my direct leads acting incredibly two-faced. Wishing condolences to the faces of the newly departed, but celebrating behind closed doors. Really gross. This behavior would at least make sense if it were in service of a good technical vision, but in my ten years of experience I have truly never seen worse development standards. Rampant ego and inertia. Getting engineers to even use Git is like pulling teeth. Want to install Python 3.10.x instead of Python 3.11.x? Have fun waiting 2 months for approval. And the communication from the executive level is nausea-inducing. Rarely we hear anything that strikes at the core of these issues. Rather it is vapid platitude after platitude. And insistence on the adoption of core values that feel like a Temu version of Amazon LPs.

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