Fidelity Investments Senior Software Engineer reviews

Quality of work is not good, all the time you'll be doing the maintenance and enhancement work. Slow in adopting new technologies. Not the company to look for, if you want to stay technical. Top heavy, there are almost equal number of managers & directors compared to developers (hope i'm not exaggerating it too much :) ). No growth prospects. Everything is driven from US, management is a very good obeyer of their US counterparts. Though they talk about taking lot of good initiatives I hardly saw them being useful. In fact the management is good & capable (by their qualification & experience) but fail to get good amount of work from US. Though FMR India is a captive centre for more than 6 years now, there are more critical projects with Infy & Patni than FMR India. Very less onsite opportunities, especially for techies.

Like any large company, there are good places to work and bad ones; strong managers and weak ones; good teams and dysfunctional ones. If you are in the wrong place or under a poor manager, life can be ugly. In IT, morale has been pretty low over the past few years for a number of reasons and I wouldn't recommend that part of the business to a friend right now. IT got hit pretty hard in the last couple rounds of layoffs and frankly many were happier to be let go than to be among those left behind. In many areas the pressure and hours can be brutal.