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A financial services company masquerading as a technology company

Engineering
Current Employee
Has worked at Visa for 6 years
March 27, 2020
Foster City, California
2.0
Doesn't RecommendPositive Outlook
Pros

Shuttles are nice, if you can find parking.

Cons

The technology used for daily activities is not fresh. Heavily reliant on MS suite (yuck!), and things move VERY slowly. It's hard to get anything done without having to submit tickets and forms hidden within the intranet, so much so that I abandoned unpaid overtime because of the hassle required to properly track and get it approved.

Hiring process is a joke, but there are teams that are understaffed, so they rely heavily on overseas contractors. Lots of internal sites/dashboards that are poorly designed/engineered. Everything looks like it was made by contractors who spent their tenure looking for full-time employment.

Teams/Orgs are cliquish and don't like working with each other, so it's hard to get anything done if the people you're asking don't have "skin in the game".

Advice to Management

It's foolish to think that you can attract the talent you think you deserve as a company when you can't provide competitive perks like meals, Go-Passes, etc. You try to constantly talk about all of the improvements you're making while we suffer trying to get things done. You're not a technology company, and you aren't attractive to anyone that doesn't need sponsorship.

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