great place to start your career but not to stay - Financial Engineer FactSet Employee Review

3.0
Apr 6, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

good place to work for beginners. The company supports professional growth via certification assistance. Great place to learn colloborative work.will learn good sofware engineering which is so essential to grow in quant finance. Good work life balance.

Cons

low pay. they dont know how to treat financial engineers. Your niche skills are considered no better than a software engineer. Its a software company and its view of mathematical modeling is writing code!!!!! No career path defined and joining diffeent teams is riven with red tape.

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Pros

Work from home 3-4 days a weeks

Cons

Senior Management is Akin to a Sorority or Fraternity. They are treated exceptionally well and are shameless in their pursuits of recognition. Forced socialization - whether or not you participate in company events is part of your performance reviews. It's not enough to be a friendly, helpful coworker DEI Disgrace - millions and millions of dollars spent on making sure the wrong people are in the wrong job. But hey, they're the right ethnicity! Forced volunteering - another part of your annual review. They give you time off to volunteer at a company-sponsored event. But if you are the type who likes to just do your job, go home, and find life's satisfaction elsewhere, don't join Factset!

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