FICO reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,737 total reviews)
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William Lansing

75% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

FICO has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,737 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The FICO employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Jan 17, 2016

Lost Luster

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting industry. Select teams are very strong. Select management (at Dir/Sr Dir/VP) is very engaging and strong. Flexible work hours and ability to work from home

Cons

Alarming drop in morale over past two or three years. Invisible and siloed executive team. The exception is the new EVP of sales, who makes an admirable effort to communicate and be networked into the field. Majority of services, product management and marketing seem disgruntled, along with many sales teams in the U.S., U.K. and Europe. Financial strength seems mostly a result of scores business profitability, stock buyback and frequent expense and headcount reductions, rather than true investment and a sustainable growth strategy. Operates like a much larger, staid, process-heavy company, rather than the nimble Silicon Valley company leadership claims it to be. Leadership team is exclusively white males, few of whom have innovative/start up/inspirational energy a company in this sector needs. Harsh focus on quarterly metrics, frequently to the detracting of long term growth. Many senior leaders are elevated from individual contributor or sales roles, with little executive coaching and full-circle evaluation. low compensation, compared to competitors and Silicon Valley companies. Much conversation around, but little visible action to counteract, attrition

1.0
May 29, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

* Good pay * Good benifits * My direct supervisor was pretty cool. Definitely good to work for, and respectful. Also very appreciative of hard work, etc. * Some really great people, mostly in the trenches doing the work.

Cons

* Executive leadership inspires a toxic work environment * Inconsistent priorities. You'll be in the middle of a project, and you'll be told to drop it. Without having a chance to wrap it up, you need to jump to something else. It's very hard to finish anything * excessive micromanagement from 'tiger teams' * poor support from management when things start to go south. * Total failure of upper management to properly prioritize and scope IT needs and projects in general. This leads to horrifically inconsistent workloads combined with management that just doesn't understand why it's taking long, so they get mad at you. I've never quit a job in my life, but this place is so bad, i threw my badge on my VP's desk and left, knowing that anywhere I land will be better than here.

1.0
May 13, 2018

Don't do it.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company offers decent pay.

Cons

No career path or development. Very reactive work. You are either in the 'inner circle' or you are not. Work tends to be very manual and not rewarding - constantly doing things over again because the company does not take time to plan anything. The company lays off about once a quarter.

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