Fidelity Investments

Benefits are excellent. Very stable and low-pressure job. Upper management genuinely seems to care. Employees frequently receive pulse surveys, and then Fidelity shares the results from the surveys publicly, blemishes and all. You will actually see management try to make changes to fix the weak spots. A lot of focus on learning and development. Four hours every two weeks are left open for any trainings, lessons, or experiments you are interested in doing.

• The base pay is lower than the market, making you reliant on your end-of-year bonus to bring it in line.
• Raises are low unless they come attached with a promotion.
• People tend to work at Fidelity for a very long time, which makes it difficult for new talent and ideas to come in and mix things up.
• Fidelity loves to pretend it's a tech company, but does not have the technical talent to back it up. This causes there to be a lot of "flashy" things like containers and microservices, but not a lot of talent to utilize them fully, which can make things worse than traditional architectures.