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I work at a major north american bank as a mobile developer. Windows XP laptop from 2005, completely locked down so we can hardly do anything. We develop, stric
by EC1 13y ago
I work at a major north american bank as a mobile developer. Windows XP laptop from 2005, completely locked down so we can hardly do anything. We develop, strictly on that laptop, for 12 separate devices. There are 8 of us working in a 14' * 10' room, with no natural light coming in.
- avenger123 13y agoAre you an employee or an employee of the contractor (CGI, etc.) that's been hired to do the work?
- EC1 13y agoEmployee. For some reason, everyone else gets a large cube that they're going to hang onto for quite awhile, and we've been moved building to building 3 times within a year, all within shittier than the last conference rooms.
- waps 13y agoSadly, this probably is because your manager is "freelancing" on the mobile app on a shoe-string budget because it doesn't have support from most of management. The result is that it has to camouflage in some other budget. The way to win here is to ask your boss or your boss' boss for a nice, well paid, ideally somewhat privileged project in 6 months, then hold him to it. Or move to a decent company of course. Not necessarily saying anything about your particular situation, but I've seen this before.
- bagels 13y agoWhy work in those conditions?
- EC1 13y agoStability. Working on getting my own company/products off the ground, once that levels out, I'll quit. I'm looking to save around 25k to travel + use for rent for about a year and a half for side projects and to build my skills up.
- toomuchtodo 13y agohttp://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote EDIT: If you hate your gig enough, email me (email in profile) and I'll share whatever resources I can with you.
- dsernst 13y agonot seeing your email in profile. can you msg me: hn [at] dsernst.com