Does anyone work in Technology at BA?
Morning,
I've been working in banking/hedge fund technology for around 15 years. The pay is good, but I'm generally just sat at my desk every single day with very little opportunity for travel unfortunately. I was just curious, what is it like to work in Technology at BA? What are the perks? Do you get to do a lot of business travel?A friend of mine who works for BA in another department says she gets free travel and an automatic gold card. |
Free travel = a set amount of tickets not anything you want. - Gold card = BS
Pay well under market rate |
There’s no evidence that anyone works for BA IT!! :D
Seriously though I would imagine working in BA IT would be quite stressful at present. |
If you decide to join them please can you fix My Bookings in the app.
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Originally Posted by CT-UK
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Pay well under market rate
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Originally Posted by goldwannabe
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Curious to hear what it's like to work in the Technology department at BA!
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I opened this thread expecting to see another rant about BA’s shoddy IT :D
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Originally Posted by SKT-DK
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I opened this thread expecting to see another rant about BA’s shoddy IT :D
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I had thought all of BA's IT was outsourced? I cannot remember the name of the high-quality supplier right now.
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Originally Posted by goldwannabe
(Post 35395361)
Morning,
I've been working in banking/hedge fund technology for around 15 years. The pay is good, but I'm generally just sat at my desk every single day with very little opportunity for travel unfortunately. I was just curious, what is it like to work in Technology at BA? What are the perks? A friend of mine who works for BA in another department says she gets free travel and an automatic gold card. Curious to hear what it's like to work in the Technology department at BA! Do you get to do a lot of business travel? That said, I never ever saw anyone leave to join an airline (or anywhere travel industry related) - make what you will of that. Like others, I did read your OP with a wry smile, in fact I wondered if it was a bit of fun trolling given what people around here think of BA IT. But frankly if you want to do more travel, you'd be better staying put and use your own money to fly around the world. You'd still end up with more money than from moving to most other industries... |
I'm sure the forum would happily crowdfund an IT role that concentrated on fixing the app and website. Name your price 😎
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Originally Posted by abligh
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I had thought all of BA's IT was outsourced? I cannot remember the name of the high-quality supplier right now.
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[QUOTE=ratechaser;35395536]given what people around here think of BA IT./QUOTE]
Unusually for the BA forum (where a few posters base their FT career parroting what "people on this forum" think), this one isn't really a case of opinion. It's widely documented that BA's shonky IT has been directly responsible for a number of occasions recently where the business has been massively disrupted, resulting in millions of lost revenue and hundreds of thousands of customers being grossly inconvenienced. |
[QUOTE=Oxon Flyer;35395576]
Originally Posted by ratechaser
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given what people around here think of BA IT./QUOTE]
Unusually for the BA forum (where a few posters base their FT career parroting what "people on this forum" think), this one isn't really a case of opinion. It's widely documented that BA's shonky IT has been directly responsible for a number of occasions recently where the business has been massively disrupted, resulting in millions of lost revenue and hundreds of thousands of customers being grossly inconvenienced. Sadly though, however much evidence, experience and opinion we share on here, it still needs BA/IAG to properly 'fess up to how bad things are and commit to fixing them at a structural level. Not likely... |
How much does it cost (skilled people hours / $) to implement this in app flight rebooking and receiving meal hotel transport vouchers?
And would this have been a fun/challenging task for the UA's IT team to have worked on? https://simpleflying.com/united-airl...y-through-app/ |
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