Great management, but Corporate red tape prevents a lot of progress from being made. - Anonymous employee FIS Employee Review

4.0
Jan 2, 2011
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Management is very fair and allows autonomy because they trust their employees. Since the Metavante/FIS merger, few REAL decisions and forward progress is ever made because of all of the hoops to jump through at the corporate level. This leads some employees feeling that the company is failing to support career growth opportunities. You end up feeling like just another worker bee in the sea of 30,000 employees instead of a valued team member. Again, I feel this is really at the corporate level and that the middle/senior managers do what they can, but their hands are tied. I do think our CEO is very down to earth and is genuinely interested in how things operate at the local office level. He could never be on the TV series "Undercover Boss" because too many of us have met him in person! That's saying a lot, I think.

Cons

Again, you must be extremely persistent to get what you want and it will take time. Be very clear what you want and expect when you negotiate a salary/bonus with this company. I was used to getting almost immediate recognition/incentive for reaching operational goals and milestones at my last job. Here, it's a "good job" and you're on to the next project. "Good Job" is not a big enough carrot to keep me loyal to a company. There has to be incentives of SOME kind in order to breed loyalty and servitude.

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5.0
Jul 3, 2026
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Pros

I was there for 17 years. I worked in several departments. Plenty of job opportunities.

Cons

Not sure this is a con but they did alot off restructuring during my career.

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1.0
Jul 14, 2026
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Pros

Nine years of complex engineering challenges and professional growth. Strong camaraderie with talented colleagues across various engineering teams. Opportunities to work on high-impact projects and scalable infrastructure. Gained significant experience in complex system architecture and troubleshooting.

Cons

Abrupt end to a nine-year tenure without adequate transition or transparency. Heavy reliance on an aging, legacy tech stack that hinders innovation. Contradictory AI strategy: leadership mandates aggressive adoption while refusing to fund the necessary compute and tools for teams to actually implement it. Extreme short-term focus on EPS maximization at the direct expense of long-term stability and product health.

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