Are you a Software Engineer & love spaghetti? You belong - Software Developer Fidelity Investments Employee Review

1.0
Oct 10, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

If you love creating complex, untraceable bugs and a 9-5 M-F paycheck, there’s no better place than Fidelity

Cons

No “Agility” Knowledge, expertise and creativity are all liabilities You’ll report to young veterans whose whole engineering careers has been at Fidelity. These out of college lifers will lecture you in software design and “best practices” These best practices are expected to produce serious bugs which are “normal” and “part of life” You’ll be very busy adhering to Einstein definition of insanity as you create more bugs while fixing an old one. Your “completed”, months overdue, deliverables will also entertain customers, who’ll find fascinating features as they test your application in production and with real money

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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