Fidelity Investments

• No layoffs ever (in India)
• Respect for employees
• Salary not so great, but not bad either
• If one is interested, he/she can learn a lot on his/her own due to exposure to varied technologies and infrastructure.
• State-of-the-art facilities
• Nice and spacious cubicles

• Less onsite opportunity (one particular BU is an exception, though, where employees get many onsite opportunities).
• Employees are not provided with the right information at the right time. Lots of things are kept under wraps.
• Less work and hence fewer opportunities to grow professionally and technically.
• Too much focus on not-so-important things (so many to name; check with current and ex-employees).
• Nothing much for folks with 0-8 years of work experience in terms of learning.
• Politics among management affects employees' appraisals.
• Favoritism and regionalism bias are also present in certain BUs (not all BUs, though).

Don't just spend time preparing PPTs and playing with numbers in Excel sheets.

Get to know the work done by the grassroots-level employees (0-8 yrs exp) as they are the ones who actually work and gather the data you all need to present in PPTs.

Try to retain technically strong/critical resources, as their leaving the company creates a big void which you understand much later.