Ondanks de hoge lonen en de enorm goede secundaire arbeidsvoorwaarden, lijkt het dat er weinig animo is om bij een grote bank te werken.
Via een uniek draadje op Reddit / TheNetherlands vonden we een aantal mooie quotes over Nederlandse grootbanken. Het gaat vooral over de IT-afdelingen, maar vertrouw ons gerust als we zeggen dat dit voor bijna alle afdelingen geldt. We beginnen met dit pareltje:
Imagine you become a woodworker because you like to come up with creative solutions and make nice products. Then you start working at a company that only allows you to use flathead screws and requires a three page report for every screw, cut and drilling operation. You are expected to finish one cabinet every two months.
That’s what it’s like to work at a bank as an IT professional.
En uiteraard zijn er geen consequenties als het je niet lukt om het hierboven beschreven werk binnen twee maanden af te hebben. Je mag het dan gewoon opnieuw proberen. Maar goed, we gaan verder met de volgende:
Because it’s just incredibly boring. I have worked at a bank in NL for a year. I spent at most 30 minutes a day actually working. The other time was spent waiting and filling in all the required procedures.
I enjoy my field of work. I did not enjoy it at a bank.
Uiteraard wordt deze quote opgevolgd door vele bevestigingen, waaronder:
Same here. Ran away out of sheer boredom. The actual programming that I did get to do was also completely unsatisfying because everything was all determined by committees, architects and tech leads. A monkey could’ve done it.
The closer you get to the core systems the more awful it gets.
De voorbeelden zijn eindeloos:
I have had a informal interview to work at a bank and what immediately became clear was that they pay incredible high salary to compensate for the fact that innovation is basically dead. Things like product ownership, DevOps, and actively contributing to the product you’re working on are not only not appreciated, they are actively discouraged. […]
It’s an environment where code pushers thrive, you get your assignment in the morning and at the end of the day you deliver your code. Untested, not integrated in the repo, because that’s someone else’s problem. You just churn and churn and you’re basically just a circus monkey doing it’s trick, at the end of the month you get your bag of peanuts.
It’s not an environment where the so called modern developer would like to work.
Spijker. Kop:
Working at a bank is indeed a lot of security and benefits. It’s also the last station before you become braindead or retire. I’ve worked in finance for around a decade including in the companies mentioned. The politics, absolute slowness and lack of innovation is just killing any creative thinking and innovation. The problem is in part the bank itself and in part the fact that they’re in a heavily audited and compliance heavy sector. So they rather do the wrong things right than doing the right things wrong. Because in the last case you will have compliancy issues and in the first situation at least you did it right, while achieving nothing. Operation succesful, patient deceased, we called it.
Iemand die het toch 3 jaar heeft volgehouden?
I worked in tech at a bank for 3 years. The work was pretty boring and you’re constantly hampered by beauracracy. There’s also just a lot of really, really shit people. My theory is that the slow paced nature of the work let’s the incompetent people hide away whilst most of the ambitious talented people move on to a more interesting job.
Tot slot, voor de mensen die nog twijfelen of werken bij een bank een optie kan zijn:
I worked at bank for a while. The job was kinda fun, but i realized that doing my job well just means an extra €billion for the shareholders, while at the same time facilitating the destruction of our environment and society. Not any tangible benefit to society.
Now i work at a practical scientific institute, with a more fun environment, cool colleagues that are experts in physics(i studied math myself, so like the scientific environment), and what i build directly impacts society.
Sure, i make less money. But its still IT. I farm hapiness now, not money.
Amen.
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