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Fidelity Investments

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Fidelity Investments reviews

4.1

79% would recommend to a friend

(18,395 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 18,395 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
Oct 9, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits (profit sharing, 7% match for 401k)

Cons

Its an old, tired company that is way too top heavy. Particularly with senior managers who have been around for 10+ year and seem to be in "coast mode" and are out of touch. In my specific group there are twice as many managers as there are actual employees (developers, analysts, QA, etc.). This makes for a politically charged environment. Promotions are based on who you know and how long you've been around instead of how good you are. The opportunity to move up in the company by moving on to other groups within the company has recently been removed. You can still transfer, but it must be a lateral movement (ie: they won't pay you more for doing more, and any type of promotion is out of the question even though they'll expect you to do the work of people with a higher job title).

2.0
Aug 14, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I generally like most of the people I work with. Recently, I've been given multiple opportunities to learn new things and management was willing to clear the day to day work so that I could do that. As of late, management has been good at trying to strike a work/life balance (only recently however). Management has improved as of late to get a handle on workflow and communicate. Fidelity has good reimbursement programs for health equipment, gym membership, and computer equipment. You do receive some financial serivces at a discount like $8 trades, inexpensive portfolio management and the like. Fidelity does have the potential and resources to become an outstanding company.

Cons

Fidelity is absolutely out of control. Fidelity promotes firefighters and not strategic thinkers. I've worked at other highly political companies and Fidelity is absolutely the worse. This is because how one should succeed is not clear. Since success is difficult to measure and no career path has been mapped out, the schoozers win the day due to an ambiguous environment . I see that many cutthroat, but ineffective managers are continually promoted. There are a handful of good managers out there however. In general, I find Fidelity a very difficult place to accomplish anything since the focus of mid-management changes and priorities change. Merit review and the fact that its called that is a joke, and we all know it. If an employee wants to find his/her true market value, find a new job. Don't wait around for Fidelity to make an adjustment for you. Things are not clear when are recruited as far as the benefits package, profit sharing, and the 401K match.

1.0
May 3, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nothing too stressful In terms of day to day work

Cons

SLT don’t listen or care about associates as demonstrated in the latest announcement of the 100% RTO requirement. Vague and non specific benefits of “collaboration” and building meaningful connections were fed as the guide for control and attrition to avoid mass layoffs. Over 6 years of fully remote or hybrid work were employees never blinked and kept the company running this feels like a real kick in the teeth

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