Bonus Driven Development
Anyone else doing work for someone else's bonus? I'm actively working on propaganda work that will never see the light of day. I know that the more projects your team takes on the fatter your bonus. Context. We have a non technical manager that runs a team of 6 devs. He doesn't know how to manage us so we often get work based off some buzzword meeting he attends, and that work is usually "postponed and will get back to it later" for some other buzzword junk the following week. Rinse repeat. I'm torn because this isn't the right thing to do, but it's gotten to the point that we all just LC all day and ignore him. Maybe I'm just bitter. I'm interested in seeing if this is true at other banks. TC: 150k YOE: 7
Story of my life. I am in the same boat. Just do not get kn his bad side. His frat brother might be the director who gave him that job
CCB? :p :D
dont worry, same thing in Capital One
Wanna company swap?
we also have Promotion Driven Development, if u r fine with that 😝
Grill you manager on the next pulse. Directors and VPs bonuses are tied to the pulse results.
So many of us have a similar story.. same shit ! Funny thing is ours was technical still he did this shit...
It's good you can atleast leetcode in work hrs. I am stuck doing work that all devs in my team know is going to get shelved due to "upstream or downstream incompleteness". Oh and leetcode/hackerrank, etc., are banned on our work stations.
Banned?! How do you survive?
Leet code was not ban when I was in baml
You are super lucky that you can lc all day long buddy. We don't get that chance. I'm beginning to understand that banks aren't for technical people.
I've also realized that banks aren't for technical people. I'm just gonna LC and GTFO.
LC man I suck at it. I really need to get my shit together and start LC
All banks have a heavily tiered bonus structure where staff get very little and managers get unrightfully more. No joke I know staff who get 5k bonuses while 1st line managers 30k+ and 2nd line 100k+ and probably 500k+ next level etc Then again isn't this the same in most companies?
Yeah amex is bad about clueless tech managers. To get a bonus, just talk up projects and get time with your skip level to show off
Fakest place I've ever worked..
It really is. You also tend to get low ranked your first year. Very politic heavy workplace
Damn you’re so lucky.. I was in a team like that and then switched to another because I thought I wasn’t learning. Now I have 0 time to leetcode. Stay put and leetcode all day
You are fucked
Yup!