Deutsche Bank Associate Software Engineer reviews

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.

They laid off all the considerate managers who realize that you are an adult and treat you as such. Don't expect any kind of raise at all for at least 2 years as they pretty much only give raises with promotions and the most often you get that is every 2 years and even then, it won't be very competitive.