Coworkers are great, upper management is clueless
Pros
Coworkers and local managers are wonderful and supportive (ignoring the location head who has since left) Great work/life balance, especially for new parents Amazing 401(k) program and match Development environments are slowly becoming better in most ways. Decent compensation for the area.
Cons
Generally awful vendors for supporting technology infrastructure. Inflexible black boxed promotion process. Many projects that struggle with technical debt and lack buy-in from the business to fix these issues. Still cannot access the public Bitbucket website internally. No incentive to truly reward high performers in junior and mid-level positions, as compensation is tied to overall bank performance for those roles. Occasionally you may be able to get a (<10%) bonus on top of that. Truly abysmal stock purchase plan: extraordinarily high fees (It cost me 7% of my balance to sell), very low match, high minimum investment relative to stock price. Upper management and compliance make a lot of talk about money laundering and regulations with no visibility into why the bank is still hiring corrupt individuals. It is frustrating being told to not do X, Y, and Z and continually seeing headlines about people doing those exact, obvious things.