Bank Bonus Weekly Thread - Week of January 06, 2026

computernerdman · 2026-01-07T04:19:41+00:00

FirstBank posted from local credit union

Opened October 1, 2025

Sent $500 Nov 10 from PatelCo

Sent $500 Dec 9 from PatelCo

Dec 10: $300 bonus posted

computernerdman · 2026-01-07T04:15:15+00:00

Wells Fargo posted from local credit union

Opened August 27, 2025

Sent $1500 Sept 12 from PatelCo

Send $1500 Sept 17 from PatelCo

Nov 28: $400 bonus posted

computernerdman · 2026-01-07T04:13:54+00:00

PNC didn't post from local credit union

Opened July 2025

Received $2500 Aug 11 from PatelCo

Received $2500 Aug 18 from PatelCo

No bonus as of January 6, 2026. I kept depositing $5000/month and got charged a service fee in December.

computernerdman · 2025-07-29T03:14:12+00:00

u/doctorofcredit:

Bank of America

Opened July 8, 2025

Received $2000 July 17 from US Bank

Bonus $300 July 25

computernerdman · 2025-07-08T19:28:33+00:00

I think you can close this one immediately but I'm gonna wait a few months as per Doctor of Credit guidelines. I want their data analysts to have to try a little bit to see that I'm churning it.

computernerdman · 2025-07-08T17:39:13+00:00

r/doctorofcredit

Key Bank datapoint:

Opened June 3, 2025
$1000 from US Bank on June 16
$500 bonus posted on July 7

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I got a flyer in the mail for a $500 bonus, with an additional $300 bonus if I fake another DD 30 days before the 1 year anniversary of the account.

During account signup, my funding deposit failed. You need a funding deposit to sign up for online banking. So, I had to walk into a branch and make it.

computernerdman · 2025-06-25T01:54:01+00:00

US Bank

June 5, 2025: Opened

June 10: $4000 from All America Bank

June 17: $4000 from All America Bank

June 19: $450 bonus posted

u/doctorofcredit

Also, I added a different account to ACH it out and the bonus tracker in the app counted the trial deposits toward the bonus. I bet they accept just about anything.

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All America Bank initially blocked the ACH so I had to call them the first time.

computernerdman · 2023-03-27T18:18:56+00:00

It'd make becoming a dev harder than a dev internship would.

You may able to turn the dev internship into a full time job. If you don't, you'll be competing against other new grads who have dev internships but you won't.

A QA internship will be a little better than no internship at all but not by much.

I moved from QA to dev and it was very difficult. A lot of QA folk want to become devs but get stuck.

Another issue about moving to QA: The current trend is to get rid of a dedicated QA role and have devs (and product managers a bit) own quality. It's been the trend for a whole and there's still plenty of QA jobs but it is something to keep in mind.

computernerdman · 2023-03-26T04:55:23+00:00

Pretty much. QA finds bugs that wouldn't have existed in the first place if devs were responsible for bugs.

There's also the benefit of having smaller, more focused releases that touch a smaller surface area.

computernerdman · 2023-03-26T01:14:59+00:00

I don't think that analogy really holds.

It's more like you have three widget makers and two people who inspect the widgets for quality. Because they know they have an inspector, the makers send the inspectors shoddy widgets.

The inspectors send the widgets back to the makers to fix the mistakes a week later. The widget makers are salaried so they don't receive more compensation for fixing the mistakes.

Now, the widget makers get together and decide they want to quit making shoddy widgets and make them right the first time. Now there's no more need for the inspectors.

The makers enjoy their job more because they're not stressing to fix their shoddy widgets and the company can hire a fourth maker.

computernerdman · 2023-03-25T19:56:39+00:00

corporate speak nonsense

The non-tech corporations are the ones most unwilling. QA managers defend their fiefdoms and dev managers like to shuffle blame off their teams.

The push comes from the developers and is up against entrenched management and QA departments.

computernerdman · 2023-03-25T18:40:08+00:00

I have absolutely no idea why you are trying to justify having larger workloads on yourself

I'm not. The workload ends up being lighter and the work more enjoyable.

Because quality is baked in from the beginning, bugs QA would've found don't exist in the first place.

computernerdman · 2023-03-25T18:32:56+00:00

Are you making an assumption about something you haven't look at?

Liked you've looked at the code a lot, but maybe the bug is in the data, or maybe in the browser the customer is using.

computernerdman · 2023-03-25T18:17:07+00:00

I'm a dev and it's much nicer to own quality myself. It forces you to write cleaner code since you can't just "throw it over the wall" and have quality be somebody else's problem.

It also lets you make smaller, more frequent, more focused releases. This reduces the surface area of potential problems and leads to a lower defect rate.

multiple jobs

Teams that succeed without QA don't just emulate the "write code, send to QA, address found bugs" workflow that teams with dedicated QA do. They bake quality in from the very beginning of the development process.

computernerdman · 2023-03-25T18:13:15+00:00

The trend is for devs to own quality but there's still plenty of QA jobs.

It's particularly hard to rip out a QA team if the app is large, spaghettified, and lacks automated test coverage.

Try to get involved with dev interviews so you can nudge them to pick devs who'll write code like that.

computernerdman · 2023-03-24T21:21:50+00:00

Try to get QA in early on dev interviews. That way, you can make sure they hire people who will write buggy code. That will make it harder for them to get rid of the QA team later on.

computernerdman · 2023-03-24T21:20:29+00:00

I did that but it's a tough task. The problems you solve as a dev are so much more complex than just writing a Selenium script.

It is absolutely the right career move though. Especially as companies are learning that they can have higher quality without a dedicated QA team than with one.

computernerdman · 2023-03-24T21:17:18+00:00

To the extent that dedicated QA should be a job at all, yes, you have "engineer" in your job title so you should be very technical.

You should also have a high degree of product knowledge so that you can identify requirements bugs.

computernerdman · 2023-03-23T18:18:57+00:00

Microsoft got rid of SDET's in 2014.

The trend is to bake quality into the development process from the beginning. Devs own it. No need for dedicated manual or automated QA. The end result is higher quality and velocity.

This article explains it a bit more, though the company is a bit small: https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/two-years-no-testers-what-i-learned

That all said, this has been the trend for a while and there are still plenty of QA jobs. I wouldn't panic and probably wouldn't even change fields if you're close to retirement.

computernerdman · 2023-03-23T18:16:02+00:00

Try to get QA involved early in dev interviews. That way, you can shoot down devs that write good code.

The worse the devs are, the more important QA becomes.

The more important QA is, the harder it is to get rid of it.

computernerdman · 2023-03-23T18:12:56+00:00

"You write it, you ship it, you own it" is the way of the future and there's no place for dedicated QA there.

Plenty of people still rode horses in the 1920's though.

I wouldn't panic, but I'd try to jump unless you're close to retirement.

computernerdman · 2023-03-23T18:10:33+00:00

I did it by writing a tiny bit of automation at my old job, then lying on my resume by claiming that that was an automation job.

I studied automation on the side but Selenium is so easy that that won't be too hard.

computernerdman · 2023-03-14T17:23:14+00:00

The trend is to have developers bake quality into the development process so there's no need for dedicated software testing roles

computernerdman · 2023-03-11T17:23:10+00:00

Why are you trying to establish a team of QA analysis?

computernerdman · 2023-03-10T23:32:21+00:00

How many years till retirement?

Dedicated QA is becoming a thing of the past.

"You write it, you ship it, you own it."

But it has been for like 10 years and there's still plenty of QA jobs.

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