Visa Inc. reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(7,515 total reviews)
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67% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Visa Inc. has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,515 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Visa Inc. employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Dec 17, 2015

Senior Director

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I enjoy the knowledge, commitment and work ethic of some of my colleagues.

Cons

With 20 years at Visa, I am appalled with the way in which the 'leadership' team is managing the employees.Employees with experience at Visa are pushed out the door - some with packages but most are simply forced out. I read the ads placed my Visa on Glassdoor (employee of choice - really) and the reviews from interns. It seem that only the 'leadership' team and the interns are impressed with working at Visa. Each year all employees have experienced a cut in overall compensation - no raises, smaller bonus, higher medical premiums with less coverage,working space which consists of a 4.5 feet of table with a colleague on your left, right and in front of you. This 'collaborative' environment feels more like a factory-worker setting. The 1% is alive and well at Visa - the 'leadership' team have increased their overall compensation with no interest in building a long term company strategy, a committed employee base or a viable future.

2.0
Nov 12, 2015
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Pros

Solid business, strong balance sheet, tons of cash, work life balance

Cons

The recent changes in employee compensation and benefit have been very demoralizing - Take company performance out of individual contributor's bonus calculation - Take away 6% pension to match market practice without compensating employees in other areas ( e.g. equity award, which is also a general market practice in bay area) - Raise health care expense 15-20%. - No salary raise (inflation adjustment), not even for the promoted ones. This is particularly hard to understand when the company is doing fine financially and has invested heavily in a lot of business deals, initiatives and office expansion/renovation projects in expensive areas. It's even hard to understand when senior executives have increased investment the corporate jets/hangar and c-level executive just received multi-millions sign on bonus. It's very sad to see the company deliver such a important change via an email and made little effort to mange the change process other than limit the annual enrollment meeting to a conference room that can seat no more than 40 people so there won't be hundreds and thousands angry employees gather together and fight on this topic.

1.0
Nov 12, 2015

Bad Benefits and no career path for technical people

Anonymous employee
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Pros

With the addition of Visa Europe now Visa Inc. is a truly global brand. VisaNet is the premier payment network. The San Francisco office was reopened greatly reducing many employees commutes.

Cons

HR recently slashed benefits to be way below industry standards. With the current benefits packages living Bay Area will be hard. Employee moral is at an all time low- it is nearly impossible to get anything done, people are just waiting to be laid off. They are flattening the org and eliminating all mangers who are technical. Only NBAs are allowed to manage people now. Lay offs are happening everywhere- they are even laying off recent college grads.

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