Some of the teams/managers are not bad to work for...Good benefits and free lunch/breakfast
Technologically backward, very little scope of learning or growing technologically, lot of politics, review process is the worst I have seen....starts with manager telling you since he is the manager you have to accept his review comments and then you don't get to talk to anyone above him as part of review.
So even though you can talk to management...you have the risks. Otherwise very ill managed software division, you have event driven applications running from PCs which nobody knows of, you are expected to work on applications with no documentation or source control.....so you even don't know if the code is latest....but anything fails or happens you are blamed....There are lot of better places in Philly to works...which pays nearly same or more sometimes.
The yearly review process should not be done only by the manager, but even the senior manager or director should also spend some time with the employee to make sure that the manager is not playing favouritism or politics.
The interview process is simple but they do challenge you on many counts and that's what they look into a candidate.
A recruiter submitted my profile to SIG. Got a call soon from a recruiter at SIG who went over general stuff. This was followed by a 1 hr phone interview with the team lead and the director of a quantitative development group. Many probing questions
Consisted of 2 phone interviews and a half day onsite interview at the Bala Cynwyd headquarters. The first 30 min phone interview was a typical HR interview, basically walked through some of the projects I've worked on and some technical challenges
The interview process is simple but they do challenge you on many counts and that's what they look into a candidate.
A recruiter submitted my profile to SIG. Got a call soon from a recruiter at SIG who went over general stuff. This was followed by a 1 hr phone interview with the team lead and the director of a quantitative development group. Many probing questions
Consisted of 2 phone interviews and a half day onsite interview at the Bala Cynwyd headquarters. The first 30 min phone interview was a typical HR interview, basically walked through some of the projects I've worked on and some technical challenges