Not too bad of a place to work - Software Engineering Associate I BNY Employee Review

3.0
17 Dec 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Mellon is an ok place to work. The starting salary is good, and the benefits are not bad either. My managers are very flexible as far as time off and not over extending too much past the 40 hour work week. The workload is reasonable.

Cons

Career development. Once you start working in a position it is very hard to get promoted up. They also tend to not give anything but the bare minimum for raises. Also because its a financial company, when the economy sucks, brace yourself as layoffs could be around the corner.

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5.0
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Pros

Good work environment and people

Cons

Difficult to switch roles or departments

1.0
28 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Job only as good as immediate manager. Salary is Ok ish Benefit options are ok not great.

Cons

1) Retaliation is a way of life at this company going back to 2018 and becoming worse since 2) Mid level managers are very efficient at passively insulting the Teams they are responsible for. 3) It is nearly impossible to advance in the company. 4) When you try to post to another department - your Mid level manager will do the best to stop you from advancing. Some have close friends in HR that will even have you submit a new application in an attempt to accuse the other department of recruiting you. I have experienced this. 5) The only way to increase pay and experience is by leaving the company. 6) It use to be a culture of lets help others when there is a problem, now it is lets find who to blame for upper mangers rushing a project before all risks are identified. 7) If you are taking a new Job - professionally push for higher Salary once you are in raises will be very small.

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