Basically, if you work for a desk, you will be ok - you are working on interesting short term and long term deliverables that have very visible effect on PnL, a

Basically, if you work for a desk, you will be ok - you are working on interesting short term and long term deliverables that have very visible effect on PnL, and your bonus will come from the desk pot. Now, if you work for IT, then you are way down in the pecking order. You work for a cost centre. With brain dead management that will introduce paperwork process and shit to make life he'll. Deliveries to the business will be slow and painful. They will hate you. You will get tiny bonuses. If you work at JP or Boa or GS you will most likely work on their proprietary platform like Athena, Quartz or SecDB. They suck and blow at the same time. Offshore colleagues will deliver the worst code that fails all testing and you will be stuck fixing (rewriting) you colleagues work. Salaries will sound good, until you consider the long hours and do the math and realise your hourly rate is approaching that of working in Pizza Express.