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Are you a Software Engineer & love spaghetti? You belong

Software Developer
Former Employee
Worked at Fidelity Investments for 4 years
October 10, 2019
Smithfield, Rhode Island
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

If you love creating complex, untraceable bugs and a 9-5 M-F paycheck, there’s no better place than Fidelity.

Cons

No “Agility”

Knowledge, expertise, and creativity are all liabilities.

You’ll report to young veterans whose whole engineering careers have been at Fidelity. These out-of-college lifers will lecture you in software design and “best practices.”

These best practices are expected to produce serious bugs, which are “normal” and “part of life.”

You’ll be very busy adhering to Einstein's definition of insanity as you create more bugs while fixing an old one.

Your “completed,” months-overdue deliverables will also entertain customers, who’ll find fascinating features as they test your application in production and with real money.

Advice to Management

Google “software engineering.” Get acquainted.

You’ll feel a serendipitous tingling in your skin as you realize there is an alien, non-financial, whole new universe in which well-known and proven software engineering principles will save you about 90% of your cost.

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