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
2.0
Jul 2, 2008
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Pros

There are a lot of very smart people working in the IT area here, and it's been a pleasure working with them.

Cons

There are also a lot of very lazy people working here who have adopted a "cover my butt" attitude. Taking risks and initiative is actively discouraged by multiple layers of middle management who are afraid to be on the "wrong side" of a senior manager, so the safe-but-inadequate decision is preferred over a better solution which entails some risk. Too much paper-pushing and red tape in getting things done. HR & Management like to crow about paying "industry average" salaries, which to me seems like a way to guarantee you'll only retain "industry average" talent.

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