Fidelity Investments reviews

-variable pay means always leave a lot on the table if you decide to leave -management is based on seniority instead of leadership values -leaders don't focus on growing you or duplicating their efforts by instilling them in you, they just tell you how they want it. - feels like managers are graded on product deliverables not team growth - knowledge base documentation(confluence without the ai summary feature) is an utter nightmare, nobody can put together a technical document - most people have this way about them where they don't try to understand your question, and jump strait to telling you what they think you should know. this is actually a big one, I get cut off all the time before I can even finish my question or thought experiment to paint them a picture are they go off on something they think is helpful but not helpful. -risk adverse, afraid to refactor or tackle tech debt if it touches to many things -design choices over simplify matters and applications cripples with accidental complexity cause the original model was insufficient -design end to end solutions for everything rather than building composable tools(in the name of security/application isolation, safety) but creates multiple points of failure cause they copy and paste code instead of making robust interoperable tools -back ends are a Rube Goldberg, everyone is afraid of touching things because of this

You sell your soul to handle thousands of phone calls every quarter. The job is relentless, stressful, and offers little escape. Your screen is monitored at times, and every single call is recorded. If you dream of moving into a back-office role, forget it. The only real “growth” path is becoming a team lead (if you’re a top performer and extremely lucky, maybe after a year), which might eventually lead to management—if you stick around for 5+ years. Meanwhile, back-office managers ignore emails requesting shadow opportunities, and even if they didn’t, good luck getting off the phones long enough to take advantage of them.