Pros
- Many opportunities to build close and friendly relationships with other members of the company. If there's a hobby you have, chances are you'll have no problem finding a buddy with the same hobby in the company and developing a long-lasting friendship. - Decent health benefits package. - Free lunch. - Decent _management_ training program, although mostly for the benefit of the company (see Cons) - Good job security. The company generally performs well despite market downturns, strongly believes in hiring organically, and never has layoffs.
Cons
- Compensation is approaching the bottom of the barrel given the skill set of the employees and completely disregards cost-of-living changes in the economy or region, despite the company's relatively good performance in the market. - Very weak and poorly defined career growth path for many software engineering positions. - Employees promoted into management rather haphazardly and arbitrarily. The company tries to solve this rather fruitlessly with management training. - Many dead-end hiring positions setup arbitrarily without a care for how an employee can develop in that position. New hires: although there are some amazing opportunities at FactSet, be very weary of which position you interview for. - Few non-managerial training options for software engineers.