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Fidelity Investments

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Leadership is full of sycophants - Technical Lead Developer Fidelity Investments Employee Review

3.0
Jul 14, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Job security * No work pressures * Internal movements

Cons

* About 60% staff is useless. You bump into people who call them leaders, managers, agile gurus, but have no clue about the product, or business, or technology. * Leaders are sycophants, who love sycophants. Hence only sycophants move up. * Promotions happen not based on merit. But sycophant leaders choosing their favorite sycophants * When leaders move to a different organization they take these incapable sycophants with them - they together spoil the culture of the new team * Good people are leaving. Many great leaders who build core systems from ground up are not rewarded. Sycophants who have no knowledge of product, business, or technology are constantly repelling them * In the name of diversity & inclusion, incapable people are being promoted to the highest positions and they are failing everyday

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