Pros
- Job security - Took requirement gathering seriously - Bonus was okay
Cons
On the team I was working on, senior developers weren't senior to most standards and didn't know some basic Java and software principles. Their systems were very old and the work was only on legacy systems or new apps that had to interact with the legacy system through an in-app dependency on the legacy product. Their tech is antiquated, with Java version on 8 at the time, but most probably still is on 8. The work is essentially small changes on their legacy system for code monkeys that they could hire from anywhere. There is seemingly no career progression or discussion on this subject. Pay is very low for a financial corporation that big that can afford a lot more. While I was there, my application spent a year in a branch and was never deployed (why did they ask me to do it?), and I didn't see much in terms of deployment to production. Their pipeline was inefficient for deployment and many automatable steps were manual. You will not be deploying anything there so that part of development, you will not see.