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Solid development environment and resources, middling business interaction

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Morgan Stanley for 2 years
June 17, 2012
New York, New York
3.0
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Pros
  • Great software development platform for Java devs; pretty much everything you need is one Ivy-import away.

  • IT is given respect in terms of their input on improving the running-the-bank functions.

Cons
  • There is always a tiresome communication gap between the business users (your customers as a software dev) and yourself.
  • Seriously heavyweight middle-management; devs are often outnumbered (to the scale of 3:1, in the worst cases) by 'project managers' of some form or another.
  • Bureaucracy, but this is a bank, so par for the industry course.
Advice to Management

There needs to be a clearer communication line between the software developers and their customers: the business units.

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