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So bad I had to quit - Glassdoor rating of 1.9 for my department

Senior Staff Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Visa for 1 year
February 4, 2016
Foster City, California
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

A well-known, worldwide brand name. Marketing makes deals with fun corporations, so there are opportunities to get tickets to movies and sporting events. If you negotiate well—and you have to negotiate, I mean REALLY negotiate, because they will try to lowball you—your pay can be great.

Cons

Horrible, horrible place to work. It is like a caste system.

If you're Indian or white male, there is room to grow. If you're not, you will be assumed incompetent until you have to prove yourself, but are never given the opportunity to prove yourself.

People brown-nose up and don't care about their direct reports. The Sr. Directors / VP levels, and the administrative staff working for the higher-ups think they are holier-than-thou.

You're more likely to get ignored or even mocked rather than get help to achieve your personal, professional, and corporate goals.

The Indian managers seem to care about growing their personal empires of employees; they want bodies, not skilled workers. Not sure if that is true for the non-Indian male managers.

Female managers? They're relegated to QA only, I think.

Advice to Management

Start caring a little bit more about what happens on Market Street. That is the best way to improve what happens on Wall Street.

If you continue on your current path, Wall Street will start noticing and will become unhappy, like your workforce.

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