FactSet Software Engineer II reviews

I must mention first that what happens with you in a company is much more strongly tied to the team you work with rather than the entire company especially if the company is very big. 1) The engineers don't have a lot of say. Things run the way they already are. Less innovation. More support work. Less development work. 2) Things move really slow. Months are spent in discussing the specs. 3) Very few people from Computer Science Background and those who understand the difference between doing things and doing them optimally. "Get the work done fast and asap" is the cry. 4) No "Code Reviews". Less focus on Unit Testing. 5) Too much hierarchy. You join as Software Engineer I, then you become SE II then SE III and then Senior Software Engineer. Also, there are no strict guidelines that you can follow to change your CPP level. It is your manager's discretion. 6) Too much politics

Debatable if this is a pro or con, but lack of startup culture. We don't have ping-pong tables or anything like that, but maybe that's a good thing. I wish it was just a little more though, for example, we only do a hackathon once a year, and participation isn't super high.