FICO Reviews

Current Employee – been working at FICO

Pros – Free and friendly culture.
Good exposure to business.

Cons – Management style is rather laidback, so you have to be more proactive to build up your own carrer path.

Former Employee – worked at FICO full-time for less than a year

Pros – I had a great manager, and great team. Fun, exciting, and challenging work.

Cons – Little-to-no training opportunities. On-boarding consisted of PPTs and a quiz. There were 2 previous layoffs to mine before office space was consolidated between Minneapolis and Arden Hills. Former Arden Hills campus had 4 office buildings, by the time I was laid off there were only 2 occupied buildings left - the smallest two, with plenty of empty cubicles to go around.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on growing the business and your talent instead of constantly acquiring and absorbing various entities. Encourage innovation with the staff you already have, instead of the acquiring/layoff cycle.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at FICO full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – The people at FICO are great to work with. You also are provided with the technology to perform your job as well as a flexible schedule.

Cons – Aligning individual and team goals with department goals can be a challenge.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at FICO full-time for more than a year

Pros – I worked with great people. Smart, fun, giving of their time. Company culture was open to remote and flexible work arrangements. Pay was good.

Cons – My manager understood the business and was very supportive of his employees. That wasn't the case with all management. Business was slowing and layoffs were not uncommon. Health benefits not good with high deductibles.

Advice to Senior Management – Communication was lacking. Employees felt no connection to senior management.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at FICO full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Stable work with a relatively structured schedule
Nice and smart people on the teams
The flexibility of telecommuting

Cons – Lack of upward mobility if your team is small and you are junior
Lack of culture
Benefits leave something to be desired
regular layoffs

Advice to Senior Management – FICO needs to make some drastic changes if it wants to compete with all the new tech companies in the Bay Area. Make keeping up with current technologies a priority.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – A few people I worked with were very smart

Cons – No culture, no value
Politics between different teams.
Stupid and authoritative senior managers who didn't know analytics.
No future potential.

Advice to Senior Management – Get your culture right.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

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

Pros – Working at FICO was a great experience. There were great people with extensive industry experience and they had great benefits.

Cons – Not enough appreciation by management for efforts related account management and client satisfaction

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at FICO full-time

Pros – Employee friendly culture and relaxed work timings. Has some good people working although numbers are reducing.

Cons – Too flat grade structure and low compensation for junior levels.

Advice to Senior Management – Take feedback from employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at FICO full-time for less than a year

Pros – Highly intelligent co-workers, cutting edge analytics, good compensation

Cons – Training limited to online PPT presentations. No mentoring. Remote-based employees "left on an island". Communicatiion is poor.

Advice to Senior Management – Management was too focused on cost control, which allowed limited to no travel for training, shadowing mentors, on-site client engagement for learning purposes. As a new employee in a remote-based position, I felt in many ways I had to fend for myself or was lost. There is not a strong training/on-boarding program, especially someone new to consulting. Management did not do a good job with team/associate development. Inter-company communication is very poor and needs improvement.

Former Employee – worked at FICO for more than 10 years

Pros – There are many friendly people there, although some areas are pretty 'clicky'. Some teams are great to work on while there are other less friendly teams. This seems to be determined by the managers.

Cons – There are not always raises or bonuses every year for employees below manager status. There seems to be a lot of layoffs.