Low tech talent at BofA

I just joined last month and have come over from capital one. What a mistake for a small pay bump. I'm actually trying to go back.

I'm in consumer technology and the entire teams are made up of people on visa. There are hardly any Americans except on the product side on the business.

How are these highly desirable candidates...we get on calls and they go in circles and everyone talks over each other and does not make any sense. It's legit 6hrs of calls a day as if you are calling for tech support on your dell computer to an offshore office...

It's really hard to learn anything from anyone here. Kind of a sink or swim mentality and just do the best you can.

You are the sum of the people who you work with. This will be a short lived stay at BofA. It pains me to see them scream diversity while there entire tech house is made up of one race.

Is this across BofA ??

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Hi, former BOFA FTE tech employee here. There is a very good chance your experience in any tech org/team will be the EXACT SAME if not worse.

Bank of America is comparatively a very safe place to work. You don't have to work very hard or be very good at programming to survive. So the truth is, BOFA has cut back significantly on hiring FTE workers on visa but because BOFA does not conduct many layoffs, lots of people stay at the Bank for years and these H1B employees are not new employees, they have been there for a while.

If you want to have a productive time at BOFA, I suggest you take advantage of books and courses to become a better programmer and keep your system design skills sharp. DDIA and Refactoring are good examples. This way your interview skills wont deteriorate. You are not going to learn much at BOFA anyway.

Good luck. Even if you quit in less than 1 year, I doubt any employer will judge you because from my experience everyone knows how BOFA tech talent and culture is.

Try the Plano office. When everyone was still in the office there was at least a 50% India population if not more all on VISA. Very diversified

How is hiring one large group of the same people not viewed as discrimination towards others?

Good enough is good enough, as long as it's also cheap.

BofA is outsourcing and backfilling more roles to India across the company in any back office position that isn't customer facing. It is a communications nightmare working with Indian teams either here or over there. Everyone is aware of the issues but it boils down to cost cutting above all else.

Welcome to The Bank of India. We used to be called The Bank of America but we now out source every job we can to India.

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