Fidelity Investments Reviews

Pros

Employee Freedom
Respect for individual
Great place to work for freshers

Cons

Salary not upto the mark
Politics in the management level
Work is routine
Cann't think out of the box

Pros

1. Beautiful Campus
2. Nice cafeteria and break-areas
3.Professional and competent staff.
4. Management is hands-off
5. Availability of resources required to complete work

Cons

1. Management is aloof, arrogant. Doesn't know whats really going on. Out of touch with staff.
2. Management draws conclusions without investigating facts.
3. Contractors are not treated as part of the team. For example, contractors are three to a cubicle while employees have their own. There are many unoccupied cubicles.

Advice to Senior Management

Weed out people who are not managers from management. Train managers to communicate with staff, Sensitize management to needs of staff and train management to encourage staff. Suggest a web-based program which would allow employees to recognize each other for great work. This would work by granting each employee 6 tokens each year. The employee may use one of the tokens to recommend another employee. Each employee may only receive 3 tokens per year. The token allows the recognized individual to choose a gift.

Pros

Good benefits
Most managers are fair
Ability to learn new things (up to a point)
Tuition reimbursement

Cons

No progression
Cumbersome duties, no challenge
Must love sales, b/c you're doing it to customers or employees as management.

Advice to Senior Management

Get it together. Management keeps leaving for a reason, as do employees. Make them feel appreciated...not just with words.

Pros

The money is the best reason

Cons

Being on the phones.. The schedule

Advice to Senior Management

The employees have an after work life!!!!

Pros

Good health benefits, work life balance, paid leave.

Cons

Layoffs done frequently and piecemeal, decimating employee morale. Frequent talk of moving operations out of state.

Pros

Great environment, surrounded by great folks and extremely intelligent folks makes it that much more easier to work with.

Cons

Some of the downside includes the benefits that is being provided.

Advice to Senior Management

NA

Pros

No cold calling, good bene's, decent management for the most part.

Cons

Comp plans change almost every half. They expect 110% all the time, and managed money products need to improve to remain competitive.

Advice to Senior Management

Pick a strategy/leadership team and stick with it for a while.

Pros

The people I worked with my colleagues and fellow employees were great

Cons

Leadership style there is beat them until they obey, reward them as little as you have to and then force them out if they do not drink the coolaide

Advice to Senior Management

Make your company a place where employees feel respected and appreciated. The current environment of brow beat them into submission is not working!

Pros

Benefits
Work from home opportunity
Educational opportunities in house such as Series licenses, etc.

Cons

layoffs consistently, over worked staffed.
No free time to utilize the company tuition reimbursement plan, or continuing education classes.

Advice to Senior Management

More promotional opportunities within the company, as well as training for promotional opportunities.

Pros

Great medical benefits and fair in scheduling

Cons

Supervisors are always in meetings evaluations of employees are capricious

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure we are properly trained and have supervisors always available