Pros
I've met some great coworkers during my time at BNY Mellon (none of them were managers). You have the option to buy up to a week of vacation and you're given 4 personal days on top of your two weeks of vacation, which is nice because you'll want to get away as much as possible.
Cons
- Out of touch, unprofessional management who don't reward high-performing employees adequately -- no incentive to try harder whatsoever. - Very limited career growth potential. You might move up to a supervisor position, but that is a pay decrease because you don't get paid overtime, and there is more overtime and late hours in my department than most people would want. - Start times are always changing in order to reduce overtime they'll have to pay us. - Constantly increasing workload with no rewards or pay increases, other than our once a year raise that doesn't even keep up with the cost of living. - Perpetually understaffed because it is very difficult and takes a long time to get new positions approved. They tend to wait until it's "too little, too late." - Lots of nitpicking, micromanagement, and checklists. - Very manual, paper-based company. - Lots of layoffs in the U.S. in order to outsource jobs to India. - Rewarding diversity seems to be a higher priority than rewarding performance.