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Re:TSB Train Wreck: Massive Bank IT Failure Going into Fifth... by leejo on Friday April 27, 2018 @10:28AM (#16940986)
> This kind of thing gives me confidence in "challenger banks" like Monzo who are building their systems in-house and I hope with a lot more testing than this.

I know someone who interviewed at Monzo and said the interview process and technical test (write a web crawler in Go) was generally a pretty good process. However they "noped!" out of there when the interviewer said that they don't do unit/automated testing, and it's the developer's responsibility to make sure their code works.

This was a while ago, so hopefully things have changed or hopefully the interviewer was not telling the truth (perhaps looking for a reaction?). However if it is the case then they're about as "modern" a bank as all the rest of these legacy banks, or at least will be in a few years time when their technical debt starts to catch up with them.

Re:TSB Train Wreck: Massive Bank IT Failure Going into Fifth... by kennydude on Friday April 27, 2018 @10:30AM (#16941002)
TIL... That is concerning
Re:TSB Train Wreck: Massive Bank IT Failure Going into Fifth... by leejo on Friday April 27, 2018 @10:33AM (#16941022)
It is at odds with some of the blogs they have been posting[1], but those seem to focus on more of the frontend / app side of things. Having worked for a PSP and integrated with several of the big UK banks, I really really really hope they are actually covering the backend side as well.

[1] https://monzo.com/blog/2016/04/26/automated-testing/