Mac Bank is fun! - Anonymous employee Macquarie Group Employee Review

5.0
Jul 25, 2008
Anonymous employee
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Pros

IT at McBank was a fun place to be - relaxed and using best practices, newish technologies etc. The team i was with with all intelligent, fun people, and the hours were standard. I'd recommend a job here if you can get it! Geeze, as an employee you can even get free parking on the weekend in the city here! Good parties, good attitude, good technologies... was anything wrong?

Cons

Yep. Some of the senior managers were a bit iffy, and weren't up to speed on latest technologies, or even older technologies. This isn't a great look when you're managing it teams. Only new-ish technologies. Banks are always late in jumping on these things because, well, they're a bank, new technologies aren't part of their business model. If you're in IT and really like IT, maybe Mac isn't the place to be- but if you're in IT and half like technology? Gogogogogooo!

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