Pros
- Having a job, literally. - Met great people! - OK benefits
Cons
1) Lowest team morale I have ever seen and also in other teams that I worked with. 2) High turnover (1-2 people quitting every month for the past 2+ years - yes do that math how many people has that been in total!) 3) Prepare to be minimal trained and be thrown into the "deep end" right away to get up to speed. If you are lucky and have a mentor, there's a good chance that mentor won't be working with your team anymore which will be explained in the next few points. 4) Expect to have have workspace issues on your laptop (takes 1-2 months to get setup, you won't even have a laptop for the first few weeks since your start date) 5) Working nights and weekends (you will see contractors and full-timers put in 10-16 hours of work on the weekdays and even be working over the weekend. You will hear people brag they slept at "2am", etc.) 6) Increased responsibility, wearing multiple hats, and being subjected to responsibilities OUT OF MY JOB SCOPE without an increase in pay or promotion while still needing to meet their delusional deadlines because of the crazy turnover in the team. The increase came in 2+ years later and was only a few thousand dollars... it's not about the money at this point. 7) High developer and senior developer turnover only to be replaced by new grad developers who then have no mentors and are expected to be a senior level and represent the team in business project meetings. 8) Absentee leadership... absent manager. 1:1s once or twice a year that are "obligated", good luck trying to talk to this manager or getting an email response which comes to my next point. 9) Absent manager results in losing our contractors for a few weeks to a month or so because their user credentials expired... they can't get any work done. 10) High pressure donation drives for United Way every year - they want to see direct reports reach 100% donation rate. Donating should be optional. You are a bank why don't you donate and not take from employees?