As of this posting there are 504 job openings at RJ. HR cannot keep up with the demand of all those leaving RJ in droves. What a milestone to know that more are leaving than HR can accommodate. Those of you on LinkedIn can also see the pleadings of various IT managers trying to recruit speaking of what a wonderful company RJ is to work for and it isn't just one manager. Paul, Bella and Vin are getting exactly what they deserve. The brain drain has been excruciating and deservedly so. I have no sympathy after what they did to us. Some previous posts say we should move on, I have moved on yet my anger is still there. I also think some of those posts are from RJ HR trying to get us to forget this site.
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In 8 years of working they've never had a succesful disaster test. That issue with Oracle Exadata was self inflected by IT but the management tried to blame oracle. My old manager in Zolper group told me they had to lie to the FAs about the real cause. I'm so glad I was fired last year, as it started the next chapter in my career.
#raymondjames
Thank you for the extra information on the Disaster recovery update.
In my 20 years there, those tests never ran smoothly-even though they were planned tests! To get RJ systems ready for 'Monday' morning trading always took MANY more hours than what was estimated - and that was when everyone was eager to help!
RJ is FUBAR!
Best of luck to those who remain- there are some really good people there!
Executive Mngt is useless
Regarding the disaster recovery test, I heard that during the failover they couldn't get DNS/active directory with the DR IP's flipped. Took them over 6 hours to figure it out. Also think about this, the day after the 550 were let go RJ had a huge issue with Exadata and Oracle. Took days and days to recover. It showed that RJ was NOT prepared for a disaster. Wonder if the SEC knows...Since then dozens of teams within IT have been reviewing and trying to ensure that they are ready for a DR. Well I guess that didn't work to well since the August test was a failure. Nobody that knows what to do is doing it or cares to do it for obvious reasons. Good luck Paul, Bella and Vin.
Totally agree with all these posts - RJ is learning the hard way that you can't replace experience....
Would luv to hear more about Disaster Recovery test!!
HR definitely monitors and posts this site, my old girlfriend worked in HR and told me they did. I'm still angry too, at having to work in this terrible environment and all my friends that are still out of work. I think we all need to hashtag #raymondjames and #bellaallaire and #vincampagnoli so our posts show up in google to help others
I am happily working for a great company in Tampa. I no longer have the headaches that I had at RJ. I no longer have to work nights and weekends all the time and when I am asked to work a night or weekend I am compensated. RJ never compensated.
Paul and his executive team did this to RJ. They deserve all the credit for where morale is. The only way this will change is if he resigns and a new team is brought onboard. RJ is toxic at the moment especially in IT. If you have any contacts with anyone in that area especially under Vin feel free to ask how the last disaster recover test went. RJ nearly made the front page.