Technically conservative culture
Technically conservative culture
The company's culture is great. Business users will usually be engaged and constructive. There are a lot of opportunities if you're in the right team or location.
At a very fundamental level, conservative technology decisions are made that impact the whole firm. This is understandable, given the highly regulated nature of the company and its large size. But it can feel like you're spending a lot of time learning to do things the "Morgan way" with their very proprietary tech stack.
Also, there are the usual problems with technology in the finance industry, generally being treated as a lower-tier citizen of the firm.
Get fresh advisors at the top levels of application infrastructure who are more eager to embrace open source software and established industry trends rather than looking at them with caution or as support costs.
Yes, the company's technology budget cannot possibly sustain efforts to "morganize" and support every new FOSS thing that comes along, but we shouldn't need to.
We should seek fundamentally new ways to work that allow app development teams to explore these options almost immediately (pre-production).
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Vice President - Technology
1 phone interview, 4 rounds of in-person interviews. I was referred by an employee. I received a telephone interview request from HR. After completing the telephonic interview, I was asked to come for an in-person interview.
Vice President - Technology
After a quick phone conversation with an internal recruiter, I had two phone interviews with senior employees, followed by an on-site 1:1 with a team member and a 1:1 with HR.
Vice President - Technology
Lengthy process, with the same type of questions from different people. They like people who are stable rather than competent. Was asked usual questions about log segments in Sybase. Network monitoring and shell scripting were also covered.
Vice President - Technology
New York, New York, United StatesApril 1, 20181 phone interview, 4 rounds of in-person interviews. I was referred by an employee. I received a telephone interview request from HR. After completing the telephonic interview, I was asked to come for an in-person interview.
Vice President - Technology
London, United KingdomSeptember 1, 2018After a quick phone conversation with an internal recruiter, I had two phone interviews with senior employees, followed by an on-site 1:1 with a team member and a 1:1 with HR.
Vice President - Technology
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNovember 1, 2018Lengthy process, with the same type of questions from different people. They like people who are stable rather than competent. Was asked usual questions about log segments in Sybase. Network monitoring and shell scripting were also covered.
