FIS reviews

3.4

57% would recommend to a friend

(13,372 total reviews)
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Stephanie Ferris

48% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

FIS has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 13,372 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The FIS employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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4.0
Aug 5, 2012
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Pros

there is a good compensation and benefit package waiting for you. i had a very good TL's and TC's and you'll meet new friends..

Cons

depending on the operations manager of the account, your sick leaves needs to be approved first for it to be considered "approved" sick leave even if you have medical certificate. you're not allowed to get sick.. :)

3.0
Aug 5, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Great experience from a systems perspective; due to numerous acquisitions over the last several years, FIS operates multiple accounting systems. Employees have stock options. Hours can be flexible for those not in management; okay work-life balance.

Cons

Benefits continue to get worse each year, especially medical benefits. For a Fortune 500 company, one would think the company would offer better benefits to its employees. Very limited mobility to get promoted from within; if you are more knowledgeable than your manager, you are viewed as a threat. HR will always support management regardless of how inappropriate decisions made by senior management may be, not worth taking the time to address your concerns with them. Increases are laughable, corporate standard 2% in 2011, which is always based on a bell curve and formulated so that no one ever “exceeds expectations.” Employees participate in quarterly meetings where the CFO talks about how well the company is doing and how FIS is #1 in the industry. Ironically, just before raises were given this year, the CEO gave a speech about how important the employees are, as if that was going to soften the blow. The company operates too many accounting systems, and very little has been done over the last three years since the merger with Metavante, to consolidate those systems and branding continues to be inconsistent. Legacy Metavante employees act and behave as though they are working for a smaller company and forget that we are all one company; the mentality of employees is very narrow and they forget we are a company with 30K employees. Business units operate as if they are separate from FIS and Sales runs the show; they are not required to adhere to company policies and procedures or very little is being done to address the inconsistencies.

1.0
Aug 1, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay/benefits although a little below industry standard. The coworkers whom are at your level in the org chart are generally good people.

Cons

The managers mostly stick together and focus how to defend themselves when a crisis hits and don't spend much attention on how to make the workplace a success driven culture. The environment is the exact opposite of what any intelligent engineer would want to work at - management imposes a large amount of arbitrary rules (they need to make it seem like they are doing something even when the rules don't really help at all). They dictate technical decisions that are advised strongly against by the engineers. High degree of micro management seen at all levels. Disagreeing with management can lead to punishment.

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