Danske Bank Reviews

Pros

Professional environment, great management staff, good career opportunities, great pay if you are good.

Cons

Can be sometimes little bureaucratic , but nothing too bad. If you love to work for a really big firm, this is the place

Advice to Management

Keep on rocking!

Pros

Good at bonds, FX, rates

Cons

Less good at investment banking

Advice to Management

de-centralize decision making

Pros

Lots of tools and flexible environment

Cons

Many Legacy platforms, but they are being rebuilt.

Pros

Big company, a lot of events, trainings and commitees activities, free fruits and sweets every week, health ensurance, lot of changes every year

Cons

Company exists in Lithuania not so long so mostly all employees have less experience than they have to have, a lot of mess, rules are changing all the time, employees are creating own rules each for themselves how to do ODD without bigger restrictions. Salary is small and not growing, managers are afraid of continiuos improvements, only few free places for trainings and they are limited to scandinavian languages and... AML, however, after taking it you must work in Danske for at least a year after.

Pros

Agile IT Moon Shot Startup

Cons

Bureaucracy Corporate Slow Big Conservative

Pros

Big international company, there are some benefits like private health care..

Cons

Too much corporate nonsense, small salary, a lot of overtime

Pros

Flexible working hours to suit you

Cons

Haven't seen any as of yet

Pros

* Good work/life balance * Decent compensation package * Good hardware Note: Definitely not all teams suffer from all the cons mentioned below, but unfortunately some do.

Cons

* Job didn't align with the role that was presented during the interview * Slow and cumbersome internal processes - it took weeks to get relevant software and access rights set up, and little relevant work could be done in the meanwhile * Generally built around stale technologies with little motivation to innovate or move forward * Bad ad hoc architecture and a rotting codebase with a lot of debt accumulated over... the years - and no incentive to improve things (partly due to a justified fear of breaking things) * A lot of churn by developers in the team * Minimal and stale documentation and little motivation to improve it - combined with the above, there were many odd edge cases in the system that no one understood * Very noisy and old office * Minimal communication between different teams * Unnecessary bureaucracy when deploying code * A lot of coworkers with little motivation to do anything but what was minimally expected of them * Lack of well defined development processes * Minimal unit test coverage, no code reviews, etc. * Micromanagement * Less than optimal facilities for remote work (via a noticeably slow Citrix connection) * Overly strict network policies and firewall/proxy

Advice to Management

* Think about long term sustainability of products - maintaining, upgrading, refactoring, and paying off technical debt is important, as is spending time evaluating design and architecture decisions * Don't oversell or misrepresent a position during the interviews - developers will move on with little delay anyway * Create an environment in which talented developers would thrive