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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3.0
Mar 1, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Stable work with a relatively structured schedule Nice and smart people on the teams The flexibility of telecommuting

Cons

Lack of upward mobility if your team is small and you are junior Lack of culture Benefits leave something to be desired regular layoffs

3.0
Jan 7, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Middle Management and Technical Leads are talented and willing to help. Fraud technology (neural networks) is cutting edge.

Cons

Very poor product quality in the last 5 years. Management clearly had no clue how to resolve development process, so focused instead on cost-cutting and pushing sales to compensate. Went with overseas development, which made quality a bigger issue and stretched already-challenged people management process to the breaking point. Led to exorbitant sales comp packages and a speedier- than-usual revolving door for sales acct execs, client partners. Poorly conceived and poorly executed product marketing has demoralized the technical base. Sadly, many customer have come to expect less-than-acceptable product quality, in order to get to FICO fraud detection models The new CEO, Will Lansing, has remained well hidden, beyond a few global emails announcing products (which assistants write anyway) and chiding us to pretty-please come to the office and not work from home (even if there's nobody in the office with whom we work...) Internally, Finance runs the show, so other departments are forced to do their work for them, and woe be to anyone that questions it. We have time to fix this, but with competitors (SAS, IBM, etc.) starting to eat away at market share, time is running out.

5.0
Jun 17, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

you can learn lots good stuff. There are lots smart people arround you. Foe new employee, you will work with Sr people, so you learn very fast

Cons

you cannot make huge money like facebook or google.

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