Fidelity Investments Principal Software Engineer/Developer reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(226 total reviews)
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Abby Johnson

74% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Principal Software Engineer/Developer employees have rated Fidelity Investments with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 226 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Principal Software Engineer/Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Fidelity Investments is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Principal Software Engineer/Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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226 reviews
3.0
Sep 23, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The money, especially bonuses in my experience exceed the market. The base salaries are about on par. There are a lot of good benefits beyond 401k and health care. There is supposed to be a work / life balance at Fidelity, but like so many other things, it is very inconsistent from manager to manager and business unit to business unit.

Cons

The company has institutionalized the acceptance of failure at worst and mediocrity at best when it comes to IT Projects. As a software professional, it becomes frustrating to work furiously at solving every type of issue besides the technical. Front line managers are ill equipped to manager software professionals, they are either bad developers promoted to the point of incompetence, or just do nothing know nothing MS Project jockeys.

3.0
Aug 7, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fidelity has a very competitive benefits package, and good opportunities for training and extending your knowlege of financial services. There are lots of opportunities for working in different departments during your career. The average tenure of Fidelity employees is quite long - something like 10+ years, so you could build a long career here if you want to.

Cons

Management is out of touch with market direction and needs, and technology personnel are viewed as "overhead" or an "expense" and not really an investment in the future. There is a tremendous amount of bureacracy and layers of removal between the customer and the people actually doing the work. Having "fun" at work isn't really a priority, eveyrone walks around with their head down hardly cracking a smile most of the time. It's all business, all the time, but a lot of efforts being duplicated and /or wasted.

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