Fidelity Investments

Fidelity is a great environment for younger developers to learn the skills of enterprise development without the pressure to be top of their field or ability. You gain the skills over time, and the pace at which you master them is up to you. A slow cooker can still be on the 'high' setting, but it'll still make your dish better than if you microwaved it.

• There isn't a variety of tech stack used across the platform.
• Business expects the product to be delivered, but architectural reviews haven't even been solidified to determine how it should be created.
• Confusion exists about whether or not we're using waterfall or agile.
• You need outside projects if you're going to one day leave and apply for other positions that aren't purely Java/Spring related.

Pick whether we're doing waterfall or agile.

Agile would presume that we can start development once we get requirements and update the implementation later if necessary. But in practice, we do waterfall where each microservice has to have contracts between each other that need to be defined before development starts. However, those contracts are decided on a week before the sprint starts.

Developers need more time to discuss and iron out details before the quarter/sprint starts. Make those meetings earlier in the quarter to give us time to do so.