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Solid place if you are self-motivated

Software Developer
Former Employee
Worked at Bank of America for less than 1 year
November 28, 2011
New York, New York
4.0
RecommendsNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Good pay and benefits.

Excellent work/life balance.

Some extremely talented engineers.

Pretty productive development environment.

Management is eager to please.

Relaxed culture.

Global company.

Cons

Overly bureaucratic when it comes to getting new tools and libraries approved.

Recent fascination with building a highly proprietary development environment (custom database, IDE, UI toolkit, job scheduler) which is being forced on people.

The company is very large and feels like it.

People come and go too quickly; you're considered a veteran if you're there more than 2 years.

Big talent gaps between individuals.

Developers are too isolated from the users.

Advice to Management

Focus on attracting and retaining top talent.

Provide better business domain training for technologists.

Emphasize delivering quality systems and teach people how to do it.

Create better talent development through peer review and technical mentorship.

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