Deutsche Bank reviews

This DB location in Cary is like an offshore center within US. It's run and controlled by The management in London and New York who care less for people in Cary. Too much blame game, extremely unprofessional and chaotic work environment. They work you like a dog for not that great money. Very very unrealistic expectation. Too much drama to put up with. Extremely high bureaucracy and micro management. They have an Agile process for every project which is extremely stressful. Multiple meetings. Most of them are a waste of time. Too much of process which can get annoying at times. Most people here do not dress well. Doesn't feel like you're working for a big bank. It has a startup feel to it. Some people come to work in jeans, shorts, flip flops on all days. Even if you have to take a vacation, it's not easy to get out as most projects are regulatory and they have to meet the timelines. Very poor middle management. Instead of pumping your Morale higher, some Managers bring your morale down. The Managers make sure that you don't even have a single minute of free time. I've never seen such a stressful and bad work environment ever in my life. Some people are too rude and direct to work with. This is the worst company that I have ever worked with in my life. NEVER NEVER NEVER join this bank in Cary, NC.

In two words - Low Calibre. Ineptitude runs rampant. Low quality hiring low quality in abundance. Center management woefully out of the depth and seem to be clueless about what we do. Computers and kit last decade. Desktop support is laughably bad - usually resort to getting under the desk to fix ourselves. "Agile" means something very different here: Lots of standing around whiteboards with posties. Ceremony over intended purpose. Town halls are a drag. No relevance and must serve only the ego of the center management who's apparent understanding of technology is utterly tangental to anyone developing software this century. Lots of side-way glances as we sigh WTF in unison. Project delivery is shambolic. Wins are rare as failure is accepted with a shrug. Long-termers stay as they are payed above market rate. Traditional relationship between low cost offshore and rich masters. Unfortunately we are the former so are regarded as a call center in a third world country. Lots of jolly nice people who should not be working in a technology office, but have created niches as "transition project managers" Lots of gossip about the next (then the next) round of redundancies. Apparently lots of people have more lives than cats. Promotion seems to be linked to age. % of staff are fired every year. Candidates are selected through comical darwinism. Secret meetings are called, their desks are cleared whilst they are in the "meeting", asta la vista. Then another meeting is called by management to say firings have stopped, consider yourself lucky and get back to work fast. They try to make this seem compassionate, but everyone is just pleased the wheel of (mis) fortune didn't stop with them. Lots of back stabbing amongst senior management - all fighting to ensure nobody discovers how little work THEY do. Usually the wrong person is whacked. All of the above would make a great comedy show and that would be funny. Living it is another story.