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Join and ruin your career

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Fidelity Investments for 1 year
September 29, 2019
Bengaluru, Karnataka
1.0
Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

The Indian arm of Fidelity Investments gets huge support from the US, hence you have greater transparency with the organization.

Very good compensation scales and equal pay according to your grade, which is very rarely seen.

A variety of benefits like:

  • Insurance cover
  • Meal card worth 1150 every month
  • Flexible timing
  • Free transport
  • Work from home option
  • Good leave policy
Cons

If you get offered a Java/Fullstack developer role and the hiring BU is Asset Management, and you decide to get onboard, congratulations, you will ruin your career.

After you join, they will ask you to do testing also. According to them, a fullstack developer is the one who does backend development, automation testing, and manual testing. And that too, the tools used are a decade old.

There is no scope outside, and no use of anything, as whatever you learn will not help you in the future for other companies. It's a very toxic work environment with no work-life balance. Often, you will end up staying till late night.

There are very short and strict deadlines. They will also make you work in L2 support. On the weekends, you have to attend to bug fixes.

Yes, think many times before you join this BU.

Advice to Management

If you hire someone as a developer, please make them work only as a developer. Hire people for the right skillset, and have a good mix in the team. Just because you have hired us doesn't mean we will work in whatever you ask us to do.

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