I know this has prob been said before, but it bears repeating, bnym could care less about your career path or your professional growth. This is a company that just cant be bothered, unless you are one of the few that's actually in a good position on a decent team in a decent dept. If you are a 20s something fresh out of college, and bnym has you involved with TED talks, WIN/WIT, scavenger hunts, or hackathons , then you are prob one of the lucky ones that's in a good place with this company. As for the rest of us, well, forget about it! For the average BNYM employee, It's every person for themselves. The average run of the mill BNYM employee struggles every day to get the right information they need to do their job successfully. There is no documentation or procedures. Everyone just does their own thing to get the job done. The teams don't operate as real teams. They operate as a bunch of desperate and scared individuals hoping they either are or are not the next to be let go. There is no real training, you are just expected to know it. If you don't know it, they will actually tell you to go on Youtube and learn it. Yes, Youtube, i'm being serious!!! You'll be working with coworkers using state of the art windows 7 desktops that can barely function, and you'll meet some people who work all day to get reliable information out of an excel spreadsheet from 1996, just because that's how it is there. Dont buy into the hype that BNYM is this leading edge technology company. They are the furthest thing from that. They cant even get Wifi to work properly.
Don't work for this company.