The whole vibe of the "ethical" USB IT has changed to high production and cut throat politics. Managers who cared about employees are being supplanted by corporate kiss-as--s who love the corporate-speak and can't let a day go by without some kind of mindless quote that could have been pulled off a discount store motivational poster. It went from a place that was fulfilling and enjoyable to work at to a place of toxic dread and unnecessarily high pressure tactics being pushed by management at all levels.
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It comes from each IT LOB thinking they can do what they please instead of working together. That, and being led by people with only minor tech experience. Dev is a mess without a common and enforced set of tools and true agility, network is perhaps the worst configuration or implementation I’ve ever seen or worked with, field OPs is disjointed and over-reliant on contractor work, AD is sloppy and at least 15 years out of date, and ISS has no MC level presence but they should.
Everyone has analysis paralysis and just wants feel-good reports and charts and constant update meetings that should really be quarterly instead of weekly and barely anyone focuses on truly getting the work done or changing things to make them modern. Finance doesn’t understand tech at all so IT gets the shaft instead of getting the money they need. Most senior leadership isn’t technical at all and that’s part of the problem too.
My question is to all of you tech people. Why do you waste your time here? Tech world is waiting for you. Go out there and get treated fairly. Us bank is not for technologically advanced. We are about 20 years behind. I often wish I was in tech nowadays (my soul is tech advanced but my human did not follow in this direction, maybe it’s not too late) because I would not spend my time wasting away in this desert if I was you.
The IT systems at the bank are a collection of bandaids, patches, and work arounds. Nothing is clean and well thought out. System design and standards have never been a core value at the bank. This IT mess is led by a useless middle management team who struggle understanding the basics of email. Middle management is made up from employees who failed at IT technology and failed up.
Stop whining. You get a great salary for working 40 hours per week. Boo hoo if sometimes you have to work 45 hours.
Ummm sweatshop? Exaggerate much? You work in a nice comfy office (or on your couch) with air conditioning and your favorite latte close at hand. Don’t paint yourself as a victim working in a sweatshop, neckbeard.
lol just seems funny that IT guys complain about working too hard… Most of those folks have never been outdoors, let alone do literal hard work… Funnier still to use the term “sweatshop”, white collar folks don’t often break a sweat
Agree. Just deliver more and faster! Citi wants more efficiency, agility, development, with less people, clarity, and true leadership.
It’s like this in every department I know of. Within two weeks of a certain person becoming the new bank president, production monitoring systems were put in place to track my teams activity. OnBase, Teams Reporting, and so forth. I was also told directly that several departments in my area are “on the chopping block” and very few ratings higher than a 3 will be approved. I’m guessing stacked ranking now? Which was never the case before in my division.