Wells Fargo

The teamwork is incredible. In the group I was in, everyone contributed and participated. There was great participation in meetings. And in addition, there was solid participation in software planning from corporate. There were strong agile influences, including well-defined test-driven development methods. The organization is highly matrix-driven with healthy participation from the PMO.

It was an incredible opportunity to work with a complete SOA environment. Most older brick-and-mortar companies in the area started out long ago with some mainframe system. This company did a complete modernization from a mainframe-centric environment into service-oriented architecture, with SAML on the front end and sophisticated, well-thought-out messaging APIs on the back end. It was a pleasure to work there.

The limitation on contract duration, though somewhat flexible, made it impossible to stay there. This is a common practice and I believe a somewhat wasteful one. It takes some time to become an expert on a project, and that expertise is then thrown away.