Fidelity Investments Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Fidelity Investments full-time for less than a year

Pros – bonus part in benefits is good.
Lot of scope for learning new technologies.
Each and every latest tool is used.

Cons – Pay is horrible ...Which will affect your payslip which will affect your payslip and will result in lesser package while changing company

Advice to Senior Management – none

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Fidelity Investments full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Over time, the profit sharing, bonuses and 401k matching can add up to a pretty good nest egg.

Cons – The "pretty good nest egg" becomes golden handcuffs. They work you until you either burn out or get laid off. They lay off the most experienced workers to hire interns and recent graduates.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop laying off your best workers just before they reach (15, 20, 25 year) milestones.

Current Employee – been working at Fidelity Investments full-time for more than a year

Pros – -All the overtime you want during tax time.
-Great benefits.

Cons – -Training is not effective.
-Working on the phone all day.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Fidelity Investments full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – There are really smart people who work here and there are great opportunities for career growth (at least initially) plus their pay and benefits are competitive

Cons – There are too many entrenched people who do the minimum and know how to survive, eventually it becomes soul destroying

Advice to Senior Management – Don't assume that more bodies equals more ability to get store done, there are too many poor to mediocre people - most of the good ones eventually give up and leave.

Former Employee – worked at Fidelity Investments full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Competitive pay for the job.
Co-workers are nice, fun people
Company is always trying to improve internally but changes policies a lot due to management changes and things never really improve.
Managers treat their employees with a lot of respect.

Cons – Job is incredibly repetitive and not challenging intellectually.
The company is not really committed to quality because they dominate in the market place so mediocre is ok for them.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Fidelity Investments

Pros – Consistent. You know what you'll be doing the next day for the most part. Cool building. People know where you work when you tell them the company's name. Great gym inside the building.

Cons – Boring once you get past the learning curve which takes only about a few weeks. Work you like a dog and you get no where. Very bureaucratic with a lot of people happy with status quo.

Advice to Senior Management – Try to leverage everyone's talent and don't just do things because that's the company 'policy'.

Former Employee – worked at Fidelity Investments full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Lots of money & bonuses

Cons – Did not value employees over tax breaks

Advice to Senior Management – Keep your good people

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Fidelity Investments full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – There are lots of learning in the form of training and cross-training available. Is an industry leader so it looks good on your resume.

Cons – Lots of changes since 9/11, this includes ongoing layoffs and job relocations. Lots of cliques and special treatment for some. Hard to move up and advance for others.

Advice to Senior Management – Think more about the employees as human beings and not just numbers. Forcing great employees to resign because they cannot relocate.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Fidelity Investments

Pros – -Experience in Financial industry
-Quick movement through the company
-401k and health plans from day 1

Cons – -Phone job
-Frustration working on the phone all day / feeling stuck to a desk
-Difficult clients
-Low pay
-Feeling of being in customer service instead of finance

Former Employee – worked at Fidelity Investments full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – training, location, associates, technology and products

Cons – ever changing compensation structures at every level

Advice to Senior Management – change for the sake of change is not the key to gaining market share

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend