Fidessa Graduate Software Developer reviews

1.9

12% would recommend to a friend

(4 total reviews)
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Chris Aspinwall

34% approve of CEO

12% positive business outlook

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4 reviews
2.0
Dec 19, 2020
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Pros

Good, frequent social events Work is mostly easy and sometimes interesting Skilled, hardworking internal training department Well-known, well-regarded company in the financial industry

Cons

Mostly uninteresting maintenance work Not-invented-here Syndrome attitude towards everything (including standard libraries), with in-house technology being used wherever possible Little use of industry-standard software technologies and standards (except FIX) Low pay rises and frequently late bonus payments No real opportunities for career progression within the company

3.0
Oct 2, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

They hire graduates with no industry experience and are willing to let you learn on the job. You will learn a lot of basic good practices, and the codebase is very well put together for such a large number of developers working on it. Benefits are decent, there's healthcare and death in service.

Cons

No formal technical programming training. The tech is so outdated and specific to the company that it's not really applicable to many other places. The work is boring and no responsibilities are given to junior developers within the first year. The culture is basically non-existant, I could count the number of conversations I had with my co-workers over the course of a year on two hands. The documentation is poor at best, it's difficult to work out how to do anything as all the information seems to be stuck in the senior managers heads. The pay is not great.

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