Pros
As early adopter to be all-in to AWS, c1 invested heavily in tech and cloud. it likes to hustle, and jumps on tech trends or fads. Imagined and claimed itself as a tech company in bank biz. However it's no exception to Conway's law. Biz Bozos at all levels are still in control.
Cons
There is no genuine tech leadership from the highest levels. - Whole c1 took siloed approach to build redundant systems by copying softwares from one LOB to another. - After so many years adopting AWS, the cloud CICD pipelines have poor quality. A build or deployment that worked last week might break due to constantly changing CI/CD processes. you'll be lucky if you can relase a simple bug fix to prod in a few days through cicd. - Poor-quality software has been, and continues to be, developed across all teams. Under pressure, developers have resorted to chating code coverage tests—running them against dummy code while skipping real functional code. - The longer you work at c1, the less marketable your tech skills become. Most of your time will be spent deciphering proprietary processes and rules created by others rather than building relevant technical expertise. - from all levels of sr tech resources, including sr tech lead, distinguished engineers at c1, their abilities to have deep understanding to relevant techs, then create suitable solutions are limited. E.g,, to enable zero-trust, everyone of the thousands of app/microservice needs to stash its credentials in vault and rotate them frequently. What kind of incompetent designed this?!