Outdated technologies and primitive ways of working
Pros
- Salary not bad for fresh grad level, but under the average for the financial industry - Opportunity to travel - Very good opportunity to learn about functional/banking and financial products/... - Good for fresh grads to have a taste about real life - Great office/snacks/location
Cons
- Nice people but way too busy and not many techies, no time to really develop great relationships - Your boss is way to busy (it is hard to have only 5-10 min of his time per day) - Very bad place to work as an IT specialist if you love technologies and the beauty of computer systems/software this is not the place you are looking for (way too much finance, not enough tech) - From an IT perspective: outdated technologies/very low quality software with many bugs holding together thanks to some workarounds done by the technical consultants - GUI is terrible with lot of spelling mistakes - No or low level documentation that is very difficult to find - Besides Murex, average employees/managers have very low technical skills/knowledge - If you stay too long in Murex you will be trapped in it and it will be very difficult to change jobs since you learn only Murex modules/screens/interfaces... You will be an expert in Murex and only in Murex and your market value will decrease tremendously since you can not reuse the experience that you have learned here - Lot of stress, long working hours, poor work-life balance - High turn-over, people are exhausted and do not looks happy to come at work - In a nutshell, the company is like a support shop/a case factory in which you feel like a tickets/cases robot solver - outdated way of working -> very old tools, mail box is your principal tool, - lot of manual testing...
