SWIFT Software Developer reviews

4.0

85% would recommend to a friend

(35 total reviews)
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Javier Pérez-Tasso

84% approve of CEO

82% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated SWIFT with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 35 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. SWIFT is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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35 reviews
2.0
Feb 19, 2019

The scum is rising

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Pros

Formerly a wonderful company with great benefits, still has a few unmatched benefits left. Medical insurance completely covered by the company. Business class travel if you are located in BE, for some in the USA, and practically none for the poor saps traveling from SE Asia.

Cons

The reviews of the past have always complained about the poor quality of line managers. This year, thanks to the “Agile transformation”, this camaraderie of incompetents have managed to pull themselves to higher levels of management and are driving out the talented few who are left.

2.0
Feb 3, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

not very demanding job so not much overtime work. perhaps because of its monopoly in the business of financial communication backbone. Good if you just want to wait for retirement there. health insurance is good.

Cons

Not competitive for MNC. Last time they only aim max 50% lower from the highest market salary. Now they increase to 70%-75% as I remember. Because people are leaving. "Social Justice" policies of HR on hiring. They aim diversity based on Quota of gender. Not based on Meritocracy. 50% male - 50% female. How about the other 75+ Gender?? They defy their own principle on hiring the best for the job. Well the term of the best itself can be manipulated though. Even for a hackathon, they consider a point on diversity. Well, how you gonna split coding task to a tester then... While the programmer can do the coding and testing easily. Don't know what you can expect for promotion then, especially for particular Gender, even though you perform above the other gender. One day I found a book about intercultural training things laying in the pantry. Seems like mandatory training for expat or managerial. You know, masculinity, femininity and that other stuff. I read it briefly, well yeah... They don't have the culture on linear promotion. If you want to get a promotion, easier to apply for another higher position in a different team. But they expect people to grow expertise?? How are you gonna grow expertise if you are required to jump up the team? Just to get enough salary raise. Because your salary is not linear with your expertise. But It's linear with your structural level. Different from people in BE as my former honest and open expat manager admitted it.

3.0
Jul 9, 2017

Enough to get by

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Pros

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

Cons

Aging technology. Middle management can be incompetent.

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