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      SWIFT

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      SWIFT reviews

      3.5

      62% would recommend to a friend

      (708 total reviews)
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      Javier Pérez-Tasso

      56% approve of CEO

      66% positive business outlook

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      SWIFT has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 708 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SWIFT employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

      Reviews by job title

      708 reviews
      3.0
      Jul 9, 2017

      Enough to get by

      Software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Reasonable salary. A lot of very interesting people to learn from in the office.

      Cons

      Aging technology. Middle management can be incompetent.

      4.0
      May 7, 2015

      Easygoing

      Senior developer/systems engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good benefits, work life balance. Commute against traffic. Aging staff. Far less younger people. Good to retire company good 401k match.

      Cons

      Not so good work. Good to retire and not good to start the career. No growth option or internal mobility.

      3.0
      Jul 24, 2014

      Good company to work for as a permanent employee.

      Software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) has a very casual office culture at their VTC development center. Arriving at a meeting within 5 to 10 minutes of the start acceptable. Attire is casual, even the first and second level managers wear blue-jeans. Everyone is friendly, breakfast is provided on Wednesdays. Coffee and beverages are provided gratis every day. SWIFT is not a corporation, so they don't answer to share-holders, but is a cooperative of the world's banks, and so are providing a service to banks. Their goal is to decrease the cost of their services on a yearly basis. SWIFT started in Belgium, and headquarters are there, and so the organization has that European outlook on employees and benefits. Permanent employees are rarely let go or laid off. Benefits for those employees are great.

      Cons

      At SWIFT's U.S. development center, VTC, schedules are usually chosen by management for the developers, and the developers are expected to meet those schedules, no matter how poorly chosen the dates are, so this can mean long hours for employees. The work-life balance under those conditions is poor. The senior local management has been in place for some time, and there are not many opportunities for upward movement. Some in local management are near retirement, but those in the lower management positions, who have the same philosophies about managing, will be moving up into those positions.

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