FIS reviews

This is not a company that will invest in an employee; except for online CBT courses training of any kind is non-existant. The company just limited it's tuition reimbursement to $2,000 per year with a life time cap of $8,000. I rarely if ever see employees recognized for going above and beyond, and poor performers seem to flourish flying under the radar. This is not the place for someone with real talent and ambition. I've seen some really well intentioned folk poor themselves into their job just to see their best efforts ignored. I find truly talented and driven people either get frustrated and leave or "check-out" mentally. In my division, managers are not technical. They struggle to develop scalable and deployable software. I find managers making the same mistakens repeatedly often acting on instinct rather than experience and academic knowledge. Business analysts, support, and testing staff are very poorly trained often hired based on banking knowledge rathern that job specific skills, education, or experience. The company has a strong programmer base but lacks architectural expertise, which leads to an inability to design systems instead focusing on constructing them.

Massive changes in executive leadership have resulted in leaders without experience in the industry and many with no experience as leaders. Many critical decisions (including key staffing decisions) being made by 3rd party consultants. Key employees have either left or been laid off and the overall headcount has undergone massive reductions. These changes have led to a skeletal staffing model with many employees lacking the deep understanding of their jobs as well as inadequate training (nobody left to train).