*Beware the fake positive reviews posted by their HR / PR staff!*
It's hard to know where to begin! Just a truly awful company in every sense of the word, lacking in any direction or ambition, zero diversity, full of geriatric lifers and slowly dying - it will certainly be the next Compaq / Nokia / Blockbuster / PanAm / *insert other extinct consumer brand here*. This place is like a backwater you hope you never have to sail up and once you do you’re stuck.
This is a VERY dated old fashioned company that has long since had its glory days. Being at Fujitsu is like when you walk around old Olympic Games sites from bygone eras that are just rusting wastelands now and sad reminders of what once was. Fujitsu was maybe once a trendy place to work in the 80s / 90s / early 00s. Now it is just a creaking bureaucracy full of pointless rules and regulations and deskilled workers who stay with the company for the crazy generous benefits (but CRAP pay) and ability to coast / skive / shirk for their entire careers and take zero responsibility or ownership for anything waiting to retire / get culled in the routine reorgs that take place. There is no future for this old tech company and it can’t compete with new tech despite the constant confusing rebranding.
Another weird thing for a technology company is that nothing ever seems to get done at Fujitsu yet the company seems to get bigger and more bureaucratic year on year. So many pointless “managers” and hoops to jump through to do the most basic things. And Fujitsu “managers” is a very generous way to describe these people. Line managers lack basic people management skills and universally lack any leadership qualities. Mediocrity is accepted as normal here and there is no drive to change or push for quality outcomes. Why would anyone would want to start or try to progress their career at somewhere so lacklustre and uninspiring??? Joining this company should come with a disclaimer!!
There is absolutely zero career progression at this company too as it is not an aspirational place to work. Most people in Fujitsu have been kicking around for years and are extremely lazy and it ends up rubbing off on you as that’s the company culture - do as little as possible and hope no-one finds out. Another weird thing about this being a technology company is that nothing feels modern at all!!! Even the intranet uses an early 00s interface and don’t even get me started on the rusting and decrepit offices. Just run a Google image search for their Bracknell office - what kind of 20 something recent computer science / software engineering graduate is going to want to work in some Soviet era tower block that wouldn’t look out of place in Kiev?! Answer: no-one! This is not a young person’s company. And definitely NOT a place for smart graduates to go! They go to Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google ; they don’t ruin their careers at have-been hardware companies like Fujitsu…
What is so annoying is how hierarchical and bureaucratic the company is. There is no innovation because you have to go through hundreds of hoops to do anything. Some teams have seemingly never ending reporting lines, I have one current colleague whose reporting line consists of no fewer than EIGHT people. EIGHT people in ONE reporting line. Only at Fujitsu could you have the cast of thousands in a single reporting line - now you see why nothing gets done and the company is losing work! Same thing with internal meetings absolutely EVERYONE has to be involved in every inconsequential decision , customers even point that out to me why are there so many people involved it’s embarrassing.
There is also no diversity or representation at all at any level of the company and absolutely NONE in the leadership team. Management love to talk about diversity initiatives but there is nothing concrete happening anywhere. Practically everyone who works here is a white British male in their 50s / 60s. It is extraordinary how NOT diverse this company is, unusually so, almost like they actively tried NOT to hire anyone that isn’t a white British 50+ male.
Do not come here - you will kill your career. If you are there now, get out it gets harder every year to escape because you're so deskilled.
