With 3 major outages for long durations, has anyone running their infrastructure been held accountable? Outages that miss the open our last for hours is unacceptable. You waste ridiculous amounts of money with redundancy after redundancy after redundancy for it to mean nothing except a nice bullet point to the board on how awesome you are.
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No, incompetence needs a gang to protect itself.
" Does leadership understand it? "
Even if it were free, easy to maintain, etc, the idea would be nixed because your 59 manager doesn't know how to explain it properly to our dinosaur, nitwit tech directors and other non-technical manangment. These people don't want anything to change.
Schwab leadership is modeled after the USSR.
Similar experience with SCS. Every technology decision seems to come down to:
Is it cheap?
Does leadership understand it?
Can our entry-level "engineers" use it, or at least put in a ticket somewhere to get the vendor to do it for them?
If no to any, do not implement.
"got together and proposed code refactoring and using existing tools to the full extent making changes to pipelines, deployments, alters, custom scripts, custom notifications etc etc. Nothing was out of compliance it was just a better way of doing things. However our Lead (Level 59) and Dev Manager (PL) and Two Directors all rejected it."
That's why we rarely told outside groups what we were doing, like you it was all "perfectly legal / within the standards". Too many people wanting to pi-s into the Cheerios bowl.
" @2tuv+1u4Zcfgh. So sorry that your suggestions and good ideas were not even considered. That is the Schwab way! If it is not their idea they won't push the narrative. But they probably were unable to fully explain your ideas and suggestions to higher ups so they just trashed them - that is the Schwab way - no one at a lower level could ever have better ideas or suggestions or know more than those at the top - SCHWAB way!!!
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I bet it's even worse than what you described. Did those higher ups accept any part of the the proletariat's proposal? Did the tech lead and PL not know you were working on something next gen? Did they wait till it was in progress or done before denying your team the chance to improve the environment?
I work for 2 STS Teams and as a Full Stack Dev I can speak in that context - In both teams bunch of Senior Devs (Level 58s) and Jr Devs who are eager to learn got together and proposed code refactoring and using existing tools to the full extent making changes to pipelines, deployments, alters, custom scripts, custom notifications etc etc. Nothing was out of compliance it was just a better way of doing things. However our Lead (Level 59) and Dev Manager (PL) and Two Directors all rejected it. I guess it wasn't the Schwab way of doing things. I think there are people with good ideas but are not allowed to execute them. There is lot of pushback and things are done haphazardly. We tried though we did not succeed.
There are no difference makers at Schwab and almost everyone who leaves is replaced by someone worse, offshore, or not at all. Has anyone ever questioned how people like Matt Browne stick around as "Principal Architect", yet we look the same we did in 2010, only with more DC's and app teams that dont ever change? Governance is a joke and operations is only getting worse under Jason. Simon's I&O is an adult daycare for people that don't want to work or do anything different (just let the offshore do everything and take credit for it). The managment is atrocious at all levels. This place is doomed because the workers never change and no one challanges (not Schwab "nice"). One or two key people could drasticly change this place, but it would show how awful the current leadership was with time and money (recruiting, LOL!) so it wont until the C levels exit and someone new cleans house.
Tim and Dennis have failed the firm. There's only accountability behind closed doors. And even then, they all go drink heavly on the company dime after. Hard to remember who to blame when you're a drunk.
Someone is jealous of state university graduates? Hahaha. This state university graduate (not in CS), can see your hallowed hall education isn't changing things. They did teach you how to whine well and flaunt a chronic superiority complex. Stay mad, mighty Ivy leaguer.
It's not the 90's grads. It's the 2020's grads and overseas contractors
Fu---n State University Graduates and 90s Graduates with worthless CS Degrees from unknown universities who don't know how to reverse a String are making big bucks with little to no accountability.
To the mensa’s running schwab IT, is it not policy to, ohhh i don’t know, maybe only update one data center at a time? What is the SLA on failover, if its all day, FIRE SOMEONE!!!!
Ask how often we’ve had a complete successful transition from one state to another’s data center. The answer is the same in cardinal as binary.
Even if they were held accountable, they’d leave with very large severances. Not this 2 weeks a year us normal folks would get.
Oh yes, heads aren’t rolling but that’s because it is more painful to stick around and fix the mess. Trading lead was in A2 office this week and… yeah. Had stern words. There were, like many things at Schwab, a pile of reasons. Thankfully this is allowing a deep look at single points of failure and dependencies…
To the mensa’s running schwab IT, is it not policy to, ohhh i don’t know, maybe only update one data center at a time? What is the SLA on failover, if its all day, FIRE SOMEONE!!!!
if you have same team handling same work , for decades.
Then you have same problem again and again, simple.
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