FactSet reviews

FactSet is an unfortunate case of what you see isn’t always what you get. For a company that touts a great place to work and its diversity, there were only a handful of BIPOC in North America in my 5 years, and even fewer women or BIPOC in leadership positions. In my time I was told I was a mediocre contributor, that I was replaceable, and was told to stay in my line when I wanted to achieve more. I didn’t trust upper management, the product, the clients, or the recruitment team to change the massive hiring issues. If you’re not a ‘chosen one’ your career is stunted from the beginning, and my door was blocked on the way out. I was threatened and told I’d never amount to anything and didn’t know how good I had it. FactSet was a brutally damaging beginning to my career and I was in utter shock to find that other tech companies valued my opinions and encouraged my work. I cannot in good faith ever recommend that anyone work for FactSet.

-Inexperienced developers (Start an application from scratch with mostly recent grads, and no one on the team had serious experience working with any of the tools before starting the project) -Heavy handed with H1B visas (Team of 8 people, 12 of them including both managers are H1B visa holders) -Inexperienced managers. (Poor people skills, very unsympathetic, F.O.B. level foreign) -Too much bureaucracy (I need to go through 6-7 different processes and involve 10-12 people on the team in order to submit a bug fix or new -OLD ARCHAIC BACKEND, we have to write C++ code to compile with limited debugger and development tools on a OpenVMS cluster. HP is about to discontinue this server technology. -Nothing is documented. Not even 20 year old server technology that we invented. -difficult to relate to product (How sexy does "Financial Reporting/Analytic tools" sound to someone on a date?) -too "corporate" in the NY office. No one is upbeat or energetic and when you try to spread that enthusiasm you are met with a wall. (I guess that's a introverted engineer thing)