Before you leave your job or think your job search has ended, consider some things before diving into the BoA world. For one thing, the multitude of managers who do little, act like they do everything, have egos inflated beyond the moon, are concerned more with office parties/D&I/attending as many waste of time meetings as possible, and are more a burden to team-building and uplifting of their team than a bonus. They rarely respond to urgent emails but then complain when they aren't included on an email. Sometimes they will pretend to micromanage your job but more in a bullying you to give you stress way (cause they don't understand what you do). There are many, many, many managers that do little genuine work there except the play pretend on their computer while Skyping with their buddies all day long. They delegate any work they are supposed to do. Yes, there are a few good ones but those are like gold mines and they unfortunately rarely stick around for long in any area. So be prepared for someone acting like an abusive parent more than a manager, who will make your job difficult or harder, throw more work at you while assuring you it was temporary (ten years later....), have temper tantrums (when they actually have work) that they will take out on you, or who will talk down to you as if you were five years old (when they instead act five years old in their tantrums and behavior). So, if this is better than your current manager, take the leap. If not, do you want people like that managing your career?
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At BOA, the current leadership model is that managers are not held accountable for what they were hired to do. This goes up and down the management chain. The current model is to allow senior managers to post jobs with the intention to put one of their cronies into the role and conduct phony interviews as a smoke screen. This is rampant at BOA as an acceptable practice without any effective oversight. So you have one unqualified manager hiring another unqualified person to report to them. It's a failure of the entire process and you have everyone else under a bunch of hacks that have no direction at all.
Welcome to life in a large company.
You have parties?
fInAnCe tEcHnOlOgY iS mUcH wOrSe
Had a manager who I provided evidence contrary to what they were claiming, and they literally said, "it doesn't matter, the point is..."
This place is toxic. The compensation offered may seem good at first but be prepared to not get a raise of more than 2%, if any at all, year after year. Bonuses are a joke and decided long before your annual review, which means they know what you will get, something very small, even before you do your year end.
Worked at the bank for several years and I would highly recommend anyone to come here unless you are great friends with SLT, which means you will be promoted over and over again without having to really do much.
Actually they are the same. No better or worse. People made to middle manager level in big banks are all shoe shiners