I remember walking through the halls here when I first started and feeling genuine excitement about the place. The energy was real and people seemed to actually enjoy being here. Over the years, I watched that energy fade as the bank stopped treating employees like partners and started treating them like just another expense. Now it's completely unrecognizable.
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@a1 You are a buffoon
They're just waiting for a buyer. No one could lead after Richard Davis left. Andy was a looser, and now "Indian owned" running the show. Glad I bugged out when I did and I'm sorry to see friends still there suffering through.
@gq oh I certainly noticed & also am not kidding at all about who keeps the lights on here.
i've sat through enough standups of people who can barely speak half intelligible English (you know the type, those fast talker Indians who talk in circles & say nothing).
The one I am talking about speaks the most gobbletygook technobabble possible that would make Star Trek blush. Trouble is dude thinks he knows what he's talking about, changes code out of process constantly (I have had to fix it about 3 times now), & thinks he's the one who's right. This type seems to have an arrogant lack of self awareness. I had to lock-down repo branches at the behest of our lead engineer (a fellow legacy American) to stop him from doing it anymore & force him to follow sdlc that everyone else follows naturally.
I'll be replaced by one of these mo--ns, possibly soon. God help this company.
To the unfortunate Java person. Did you ever notice the difference between qualifications of on shore and off shore resources. Off shore has no qualifications. Most often not even interviewed by an American bank employee. Some of the off shore workers seem to have never had a job before. On shore Americans, the highest possible requirements. Funny how that works out at the bank of India.
@f8 call the ethics number. Put the bank on the defensive.
@ez true story... I applied for, got to final interview for a senior engineer role, hiring manager (Indian) said I didn't know Java well enough, I'd been coding in it for 6 years & led several projects of other engineers internally too, said I didn't know Java well enough - HIRED AN INDIAN. Literally stole the job from me, they just make sh-t up & lie. Whatever it takes to break the system & surround themselves with each other.
Current manager is Indian. Had a chance to bring-in an onshore contractor. Whatd he do? Cut-out our lead engineer from the interview process - hired an Indian. It's like they can't even help themselves. Parasites & cockroaches all of them.
Worth noting how discrimination laws no longer apply when it's a brown-skinned immigrant via invasion via mass ethnicity-based discrimination in hiring.
And people wonder why the government is ran by fascists...
Actually, I can identify the precise day this company started going to sh-t - the day DV got hired as CTO. Immediately the enshitification began with offshoring, now solidified, cemented, & intensified by GK's capture of the board & MC.
Now, if you are an American, and don't already have a job here you're now ethnonepotistically locked-out. That's how these people roll & their quality is indisputably inferior to American tech workers.
That's it. Our company was invaded, hostilely taken over, & it's downhill from here. I was d-mb enough to think I could retire here & nothing would change. Specifically sought-out companies that didn't do offshore. Now we're doing it 8 years later. I uprooted my whole life for this garbage.
Someday, I won't be here to fix the Indians' code, laziness, lack of adherence to the most basic precepts of engineering best practices, & fückups. If you think the lights are on because of them, no, it's people like me fixing all their sh-t before it has a chance to grind us to a halt.
The first decent fte offer I get on the market that isn't an invaded company - I bolt.
@OP I'm coming up on 20 years here. Mid-40s. I always thought I'd retire from USB. My career has gone fairly well, I enjoyed the work, at times had actual fun. I now spend many evenings thinking about plan B. I just don't think I can do another 15 years. I'm fairly confident I'll be laid off eventually, possibly this year, and even if I keep my job, the stress and misery is tough to accept. The Richard Davis days are long gone and never returning. Now it's all about convincing myself to take the leap out of here. If I was earlier in my career I'd be gone already.
@bm You're not wrong. I've already crossed that age threshold. If I were a few year younger, after years of thinking I'd never leave, well, I would. The company is no longer the company I was hired into; we're merely followers now and not taking our own path.
At one point this was a destination employer. Now, everyone under 50 should be looking for an exit ramp. Get the resume out and start hunting. The very first moment your job can be off shored, you are gone.
There is one goal: replace you with their offshore buddies and receive kickbacks/bribes in offshore accounts for engaging in the offshore contract. US legal system cannot subpoena financial records from businesses across the world.
You are treated like an expense because you are.
It's the contractor fraud scheme as old as time.
@a1 Crazy parties? You think those of us that used to be really motivated to work hard for this company want crazy parties? No thank-you. Not then, not ever.
How about upper management being baseline ethical and honest? How about decisions be at all rationally related to work and productivity instead of whatever the reasons they're being made now are? How about not using the absolutely terrible strategy of trying to encourage voluntary separation? I can even understand the need to lay people off from time to time. But that one is undefendable.
It’s a retail bank, bro. It’s not like there was a growth trajectory to be had. It’s not like the banking industry is known for crazy office parties. People show up for a paycheck.
What exactly did you expect?