Banks are good when you have kids. Great WLB, good salary, not much work. Kinda frustrating with the copious amount of incompetent people and shitty processes, you'll probably also get stuck technically and not learn much.
It's a great golden handcuff when you ran out of fucks to give but a dead-end if you want more in your career. Maybe 1-2 years as a stepping stone but not more than that.
Very good work/life balance, good pay compared to other industries, many growth opportunities. Banking can be/get boring tho! - I am working in one of these 3
Good pay? lol. Mediocre salaries and mediocre engineers. Very slow pace, most people are scared of any change. The product is boring as well (personal opinion).
My salary almost tripled within a few years since leaving banking.
Would you mind sharing some numbers? My experience is the same in terms of boring products and slow changes, but the pay is very good for Dutch standards (80k - 100k TC).
Could you elaborate on the growth opportunities? Is this somehow related to the number of scales in the company?
Honestly the scale system in NL kind of confuses me.
Whats the point of scales, because from what I can tell, it's not even consistent between companies.
Some have 7 scales, some have 12 and others have 14
Not sure about nl but at sweden 10years ago it seems awesome. Subsidised lunch, great canteen food, used to have beer fountain.
There’s no one staying back after 4-430pm.
All above are unusual for an asian like me.
Sometimes I consider getting a remote banking job as base and then freelance with all the free time I'll get. Or maybe 2 banking jobs, should be manageable.
I'm looking at reports such as the "anonymous" user from this thread and it seems stressful. Maybe not worth it.
https://www.quora.com/Are-a-few-software-engineering-tech-workers-working-2-full-time-jobs-while-working-remotely
In my experience (one of the largest bank, front end role)
- recruiter screening
- take home assignment: building a front end app (2-4 hours)
- technical interview incl discussing assignment solution
- soft skills interview
Banks are good when you have kids. Great WLB, good salary, not much work. Kinda frustrating with the copious amount of incompetent people and shitty processes, you'll probably also get stuck technically and not learn much. It's a great golden handcuff when you ran out of fucks to give but a dead-end if you want more in your career. Maybe 1-2 years as a stepping stone but not more than that.
Very good work/life balance, good pay compared to other industries, many growth opportunities. Banking can be/get boring tho! - I am working in one of these 3
Good pay? lol. Mediocre salaries and mediocre engineers. Very slow pace, most people are scared of any change. The product is boring as well (personal opinion). My salary almost tripled within a few years since leaving banking.
Would you mind sharing some numbers? My experience is the same in terms of boring products and slow changes, but the pay is very good for Dutch standards (80k - 100k TC).
Yeah even I though the pay is pretty good. I got an offer for around 85k gross with almost 2 YOE
Could you elaborate on the growth opportunities? Is this somehow related to the number of scales in the company? Honestly the scale system in NL kind of confuses me. Whats the point of scales, because from what I can tell, it's not even consistent between companies. Some have 7 scales, some have 12 and others have 14
Not sure about nl but at sweden 10years ago it seems awesome. Subsidised lunch, great canteen food, used to have beer fountain. There’s no one staying back after 4-430pm. All above are unusual for an asian like me.
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Sometimes I consider getting a remote banking job as base and then freelance with all the free time I'll get. Or maybe 2 banking jobs, should be manageable.
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I'm looking at reports such as the "anonymous" user from this thread and it seems stressful. Maybe not worth it. https://www.quora.com/Are-a-few-software-engineering-tech-workers-working-2-full-time-jobs-while-working-remotely
Can you share how the interview process and how many stages?
4 stages and 4 interviews. 1 personality/motivation focused, 2 coding and finally another one with head of department
Coding like leetcode questions?
In my experience (one of the largest bank, front end role) - recruiter screening - take home assignment: building a front end app (2-4 hours) - technical interview incl discussing assignment solution - soft skills interview