Fidelity Investments reviews

This company does not value experience it values personal relationships within the company. It is VERY common for newcomers to feel pressure to "drink the kool aid" or they will learn very quickly how things are really run here. Bullying, mind games, favoritism but most importantly stealing ideas runs rampant. As you will probably read in other reviews, there is an uncomfortable cult-like atmosphere that is quite frankly, unsettling. Fidelity likes to hire its own interns or early career people that don't know better but anyone that has worked at any other company knows that: 1) The benefits are not that great: many companies of the same caliber offer equal if not better benefits. 2) The titles are incredibly inflated (personal relationships rule this place, not expertise). Fidelity pays with fancy titles when "promoted" in lieu of salary increases. As someone who had worked at other finance companies this was by far the most unethical I have ever experienced. If you're an early career person and would like to try it out, I suggest you get the experience and move on. If you are a tenured person, careful, this is not a company that pays well nor values your experience. You will be welcomed by people who have been here for years are not friendly if you don't rave about fidelity and its benefits everyday (literally). Strange place.

They tend to promote people based on who has the loudest mouth. They also have a streak of hiring incompetent people and then moving them around instead of firing them. There are politics abound in most of the upper management and they try to obfuscate everything from lower employees. It is difficult to move around in Fidelity. I tried several moves, but kept getting blocked so I ended up leaving.