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Fidelity Investments

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Fidelity Investments reviews

4.1

79% would recommend to a friend

(18,404 total reviews)
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Abby Johnson

84% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

Fidelity Investments has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 18,404 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Fidelity Investments employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzen industry (3.7 stars).

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18K reviews
1.0
Jul 1, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I can't think of anything positive to write about this company.

Cons

About everything I experienced at this company was a con. I had the opportunity to work for fidelity investments through a funneling program from the school called "Education at Work" ran by a bunch of toxic positivity con artists. I was attending at the time. Essentially us students were getting paid to do the same work as a regular fidelity investments employee but at a fraction of the pay, so we were getting paid $10 when a regular fidelity investments employee with he same posting as is was getting paid around $23+ for the same amount of work. Not to mention, the onboarding process was a lot of claims and promisea by the hiring staff and false positivity, all of which none was fulfilled. We were even promised training, but also none of us were properly trained. They ran us through the manual over a virtual zoom meeting for one day, promised us training, the next couple of days, then when the next day arrived, they said there was an error and through us into answering calls with the instructions of, if you don't know something, transfer the call to the next associate. So basically we ended up receiving calls from poor unfortunate customers who had been passed around and had been waiting on calls for hours. The real kicker was if you spent over 3 minutes with a caller too often, EVEN if you solved their problem, you would likely recieve a follow up meeting with your manager to talk about how you need to cut your call times down. One word of advice to anyone desperate enough to try and apply to this embarrassment of a company, go look at the customer reviews for this place. Every single one of those customer reviews is dead accurate, and I should have trusted them before even applying.

3.0
Jun 7, 2024

Just ok

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefit package, 401k matching, substantial time off phones during non-peak seasons, work from home half the time

Cons

Benefits while decent are not as good as other jobs I’ve had and health insurance is more expensive. While you’re able to work from home, management will be snarky about it and will try to guilt you into being in-office more, despite offering no help with the logistical, family, time, and money based barriers that prevent associates from commuting in more, thus, the young people who have no responsibilities right out of college and the old dudes who have a wife to do all their cooking and housework tend to be more well regarded simply for showing up in-person. Performance is assessed with measurable metrics, but those metrics are not fairly assessed and the goals are subject to change without notice, AND leadership is very vague and opaque about the methods used to measure these stats that affect your livelihood. Pay is quite low for the job, and the annual raise is unlikely to even keep up with inflation, so you’re effectively taking a paycut each year. Burnout is horrible during peak times, ie tax season. Heavy reliance on customer surveys to assess performance, but the software which records these survey results can be faulty, meaning that you can be judged unfairly after being credited with a survey that was not even for you, or a survey where client is complaining about website design that you have no control over, but the associate is still judged by these negative responses with little or no recourse. Time tracking and scheduling software is clunky and ineffective—we use THREE different programs for this. One program shows you daily scheduled activities and allows you to request time off, another allows you to view paystubs, submit time, and check your time off balance, and yet another shows you when meetings are scheduled. Absurd. Another performance metric is ‘schedule efficiency’. If someone chose to spend half their day in office then used their lunchbreak to travel home, the time tracking software views that as not being in the correct code and it affects that performance metric negatively—in fact, if you did this commute during your lunch, 100% allowed for our workday structure, your schedule efficiency would be below goal and your work ethic would come under question. In the role, you are also judged on calls per hour, and your calls must average at or below 12 minutes each to remain in good standing—however, management does not communicate that calls under 4 minutes long are not counted for this metric at all, which is frankly deceptive and ineffective. What’s more, company policies require us to wait on hold to hand a client over to other business groups, but those groups are not well staffed, so a simple transfer to the Fraud department could easily take 40 minutes, and often much longer.

1.0
Apr 24, 2024

Things have changed

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The benefits are great, specifically the PTO policy.

Cons

Support from management is non-existent. I feel trapped and have no one I can go to. I would quit today if I didn't have to support myself.

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