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Disclaimer: I work for the parent company
It is not common and as you could have figured from the rest of this arrangement, it's just yes, this organisation is broken. Which is usually a good thing, broken places are usually to make money off that's why they remain broken for a long time - some places might go under because of that, but not a bank.
For specific stories. We had Windows virtual desktops. Our unit test suites assume an Unix environment like the employees Macs or Jenkins, so we had to coax Jenkins to run our feature branches and there may be 12 hour waits for our builds. We also had to plan leaves around their quarterly plans and hard deadlines while they they never treated quarterly plans as deadlines or cycles. Debugging with client is affected by timezone differences too.
Every environment is a copy of the data, I would imagine. I think you would want to limit spawning of copies of your data in an offshore outsourced environment for security reasons. That's my guess.
It is not common and as you could have figured from the rest of this arrangement, it's just yes, this organisation is broken. Which is usually a good thing, broken places are usually to make money off that's why they remain broken for a long time - some places might go under because of that, but not a bank.
Banning docker equals to broken company to you? Please, have your opinion, but dont run around spreading absurd claims...
It's fine, many large orgs are like this.