No Direction - Software Developer RBC Employee Review

2.0
18 Oct 2015
Recommend
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Pros

It's an easy-going atmosphere and the office is quiet. The laid back culture can be both good and bad, as there are extended periods where you sit around waiting to be assigned something to do.

Cons

They have absolutely no concept of how to scope out a technical project. They let business analysts drive "how" instead of "what", and since they are inevitably incapable of doing that, there were hundreds of people sitting around for six months - putting in creatively-written weekly status reports explaining what had been "accomplished", when in fact, everybody was blocked on 100% of their assigned tasks for six months because of a complete and utter lack of leadership. I finally gave up (as I couldn't take going to work and having absolutely nothing to do for months on end) and left.

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5.0
9 June 2026
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Pros

Opportunities to work on enterprise-scale systems with modern tooling and automation initiatives. Excellent collaboration between infrastructure and incident management teams; vendor coordination is efficient. Competitive compensation and benefits package, including solid health coverage and retirement matching.

Cons

Workload spikes during major incidents can challenge work-life balance, especially when on-call.

1.0
9 June 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Riverside around WTC is pretty nice

Cons

OMG the worst company I've ever been. There are a lot of small groups inside the department, and most of them are mean and rude.

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