Fidelity Investments

My immediate team is great. I'm able to work on exciting work where I have an impact. My direct manager is awesome. I have had plenty of opportunities to grow and develop in my career.

Once every 2 weeks, we get a Learning Day. It's my favorite benefit.

The upper management went off the rails during Covid. They used to treat you like an adult and trust you to get the job done. Now they have gone full force back into 20th-century command-and-control mode and micromanagement with 21st-century technology. It's increasingly dystopian. I could see it coming and warned about it in previous reviews, but upper management, especially HR, is going to destroy this company. It deeply hurts me to write this. I have spent almost two decades here. Fidelity used to be a "we"; now it is a "they". I can't recommend this as a place to work because I don't know what the next random misguided HR policy will be, and I don't want that on my conscience.

Abandon the wooden hybrid work nonsense. The vast, vast majority of all feedback you have ever received about it is negative. You have a Blockbuster Video talent strategy that is going to lose the talent war, and you continue to double down on horrible strategies.

Trust your people to get the work done. It's not too late. You still have a bunch of great people working for you, but you are going to alienate them and replace them with compliant worker bees that will turn the firm into a parody of what it used to be. It will be a long, slow, sad demise.