Just found this layoff board and I see people are expressing their worries about layoffs and complaining. My message to everybody is that cuts at BNY Mellon could turn out to be a blessing, especially for younger workers that have the thirst to explore other career opportunities
I worked at BNY Mellon for just under 5 years and my impressions of that place were less than poor. From the outside, it looks like a nice place to work, but when you start you find yourself in an environment full of demotivated colleagues who are working at the bare minimum of their possibilities and are stuck in their old ways, doing a job that pays less than the same job at any other peer, while dealing with uninterested management. I don't want to be all negative so I have to say that I was satisfied with the benefits and vacation.
The thing is BNY Mellon captures the worker in its routines, without any challenges or opportunities, giving you just enough pay to survive, and as you spend a couple of years working there, you gradually become a worker with limited career opportunities, due to lack of any challenging work or upgrading. Took me a lot of of-of time to find a new job after I quit, but now I couldn’t be any happier. Unless for the newcomers who want to learn the essence of banking I wouldn’t recommend working at BNY Mellon to anyone.