Is Fidelity Investments a good company to work for as a Software Developer?

Software Developer professionals working at Fidelity Investments have rated their employer with 4.0 out of 5 stars in 981 Glassdoor reviews. This is a lower than average score with the overall rating of Fidelity Investments employees being 4.1 out of 5 stars. Search open Software Developer Jobs at Fidelity Investments now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Software Developer interview questions at Fidelity Investments .

Does Fidelity Investments pay Software Developer employees well?

Software Developer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Fidelity Investments with 3.8 out of 5 stars based on 981 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 2.6% worse than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Software Developer salaries at Fidelity Investments.

How happy are Software Developer professionals working at Fidelity Investments?

85% of Software Developer employees at Fidelity Investments would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has increased by 5% in the past 12 months. Software Developer professionals have also rated Fidelity Investments with a 4.3 rating for work-life-balance, 4.3 rating for diversity and inclusion, 4.1 rating for culture and values and 3.9 rating for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Fidelity Investments?

Software Engineer (933) , Customer Relationship Advocate (811) , Financial Representative (496) , Senior Software Engineer (377) , Customer Service Representative (344) , Director (314) , Lead Software Engineer (285) , Intern (278) , Principal Software Engineer (235) , Financial Consultant (223) , Vice President (218) , Investment Solutions Representative (210) , Analyst (203) , Financial Services Representative (182) , Business Analyst (172)

What are the pros of working at Fidelity Investments according to real employee reviews?

"The benefits of having a 7% 401k match and 10% profit sharing is ok but not great." ((in 3304 reviews)); "Work life balance can be good but varies wildly depending on team and manager and is getting worse with in" ((in 1608 reviews)); "The people are great and they do a lot to make the interns feel included and connected" ((in 1068 reviews)); "The Pay was good compared to the S. Ohio / N. Kentucky area as a whole." ((in 834 reviews)); "Leap program is really well structured and work culture is good" ((in 480 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Fidelity Investments according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management and Bad bathrooms" ((in 473 reviews)); "Your salary will be low and don't expect yearly raise will even match inflation." ((in 433 reviews)); "Large corporation and if you get a bad manager then you are out of luck." ((in 401 reviews)); "Did not have sufficient member on my team and was expected to work long hours during busy weeks." ((in 135 reviews)); "Although a female chairman there are not enough women on middle and upper management" ((in 121 reviews))

Fidelity Investments Software Developer reviews

4.0

85% would recommend to a friend

(981 total reviews)

Abby Johnson

88% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

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Software Engineer/Developer employees have rated Fidelity Investments with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 981 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer/Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Fidelity Investments is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer/Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

Reviews by job title

981 reviews

4.0

Oct 21, 2016

Good place to work

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Fidelity Investments has an excellent work atmosphere. This is coupled with a good learning curve and career growth for inexperienced individuals who would be interested in the financial services domain.

Cons

There are very few cons to be mentioned. However, one would be the need to cope with current technology trends as it takes a considerable amount of time for the financial domain company to bring an upgrade considering the risk factor to their data.

5.0

Oct 19, 2016

Fantastic for graduates!

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

'LEAP' - Their technologist graduate program is exceptional. 6 months of training, 4 of which are classroom based. Professional external trainers teaching everything form agile to public speaking to Spring MVC. They invest heavily in their young talent, and it pays. Salary was competitive as a grad (in my location at least), as are annual salary increases (I averaged 8-10% per year entering as a grad - in several smaller bumps - enough even to stay on par with peers who job-hopped!) though I don't know how that scales for higher-ups. The performance/review process is formalized and well run. The work environment is very good - flexible work hours, good work/life balance, very little tolerance for toxic behaviour, good people, I usually work 40 hours and leave the office at 5 most days.

Cons

As a technologist, the office is still very male-dominated - though this is a problem everywhere for software engineers. A lot of the salary/bonus structure is very clearly tied up in the overall company performance. During a recession or market downturn, the salary/bonus experience may be very different. There seems to be a lot of politicking in the upper-management. My team felt this through frequent group re-orgs, initiative changes, sudden U-turns on key priorities etc.

5.0

Oct 10, 2016

4 years at Fidelity

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

It's a privately-owned company that invests a vast amount of money in its technology. Great training programming for entry-level software developers. Great company culture. Benefits are amazing once you've been here for a while.

Cons

It's such a large company, you may not find a good fit with your first team and/or manager. The company actively encourages moving to other teams, so it's not hard to find a great team eventually. Majority of the tech teams are not agile, but use their own version of agile which is pretty much waterfall.

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