Visa Inc. reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(7,542 total reviews)
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67% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Visa Inc. has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,542 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Visa Inc. employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Mar 21, 2014

Interesting, but lacks leadership

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Pros

Some of the most intellectually challenging and engaging work I have ever been involved in. Scope of (industry) influence can be very high. Most employees committed and believe in Visa and work-life balance is generally manageable (though getting worse). High profile brand opens doors and compensation is generally OK

Cons

Very little leadership, but lots of management and process results in zero accountability (outside the exec and sometimes not even there), confused/poor decision making throughout the organisation, lots of "paper-pushers" and limited opportunity for talent to rise to the top. Little evidence that the new CEO is changing this. Business and governance models dictate that politics are a dominant factor - both internally and externally. It is not an environment conducive to collaborative working or rapid decisions/execution and can feel very slow to anyone from a more commercial background

3.0
Mar 3, 2014
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Pros

Good benefit package; decent work life balance (unless of course you're a shift worker); Decent salary package (could be better).

Cons

Progression depends more on whom you're friends with; decision making regarding selection process can be sometimes shocking. Progression within the organisation is, more often than not, unfair and non-transparent in most cases. Things take forever to happen! Too many red tapes....public-sector like!

2.0
Mar 1, 2014
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Pros

Good salaries regardless of mediocrity. Great office location and offices. Lots of opportunity available to do charity work, including paid leave to do voluntary work.

Cons

Bloated management layers which don't add value. For example, it is not unusual for a senior manager to forward emails to a middle manager and then a junior manager to deal with or indeed someone reporting to the junior manager and for the response to be forwarded back up the chain with the same wording but names of the junior removed. The place is run by boards and committees, I say run what I mean is staff fill their days with email and sitting in meetings.

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