Fidelity Investments "Senior Management" Reviews

Likes

It's more or less like a government job. You'll never lose your job and get a yearly hike of 7%-10%

Dislikes

Lots of negatives I have no idea how this is a great place to work. Work becomes your life once you join here. 1. No work-life balance. You'll pretty much end up working every weekend and everyday for 10-12 hours 2. Hikes are slow and quick promotions are not possible. There are people staying for 10+ years in the same role, same tea m without any promotion and getting marginal hikes. 3. IJP is not easy and often not possible. Here manager is God and often they are extremely partial and provide great benefits to only 1-2% of the team. 4. Terrible training. They don't have a planned training for new joiners and the existing resources also do not know anything about the system. Basically just a handful of folks know the system well but they won't help you. 5. Bad attitude<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">. Senior managers and resources think that if they threaten you with escalations and strict action you will get the job done faster</mark>. Everyone yells and fights on crisis calls. 6. Zero professionalism. For personal leaves you are supposed to explain why you need the leave. They call on your personal phone and WhatsApp to get work done. 7. Bad tools to support employees. If you take a look at their salary portal you'll feel like a 9th grade kid developed it. If you join new, you'll have to spend an upward of 2-3 months just to get access. Each tool has a different access and no one including the manager seems to know how to get access. 8. Poor HR support. Basically the HR team is very small so any queries by mail takes time and they are often not helpful. 9. Extremely unstable systems. The infrastructure is being migrated to cloud actively but they are not being migrated well. So you'll end up being consumed by 100's of tickets and issues everyday. 10. Too much power to manager. They manage everything. I literally mean EVERYTHING. From your payslips, access requests, leave approvals, everything goes through your manager. And often they disclose it to others when they gossip. Horrible 11. Promotions and ratings are pre-decided. No matter how much you work. No matter how much you contribute, only the manager's chelas/pets will get good hikes and timely promotions 12. There's so sense of time. People will call/ping you at anytime of the day. They think you'll be available ALL the time. 13. No clearly defined policies. You won't get any clear info from HR, everything has to be clarified by the manager. 14. No goodies/benefits during festivals. Every other company provides this except fidelity. 15. Too much useless push for learning. They push a lot for learning but in reality you'll never even have time to scratch your head let alone learn. They don't provide anything to implement either. 16. Overtime benefits are extremely poor. 1pm-10pm shift you'll get Rs. 350 everyday. On-call support Saturday and Sunday you have to support 12 hours each day and they give Rs. 750 only (for both days!!). Even BPO's pay better than this. 17. Flat organisational hierarchy. Basically ASE,SE,Lead, Principal all do the same work and everyone report to a senior manager. So it's very difficult to know what is expected from your role. During one-on-ones they'll give you all kind of stupid Gyan but nothing constructive. 18. Once you join, they'll immediately add you to pillars like automation, talent, efficiency, etc where you'll have to contribute accordingly. It's a headache because along with your actual work this will kill you with weekly meetings and rigourous follow-ups which is stupid. 19. To sum it up, if you value work-life balance, if you want to be in peace and learn efficiently and be technically good, DO NOT JOIN FMR INDIA...Read More

Work Details

Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

The best learning & development environment. Easy to communicate with management for any issue or help.

Dislikes

Engagement with onsite teams are not great. Offshore teams has more dependency on onshore. So working would get extended.

Work Details

Not that great because of On shore dependency

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Likes

Work was good. New challenges and exciting problems to solve

Dislikes

Everything is just a showoff there. Whenever US guys come to India on a trip, they make it seem like some god has come and everyone is a servant. You cannot ask the management any questions when it comes to controversial decisions. They will avoid. Will not recommend unless you dont min d being treated as a third world citizen. Even though its more like a product based company, the culture is kind of like a service based company. You will work like a slave there. Crazy work hours....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

People are welcoming. Everyone helps you when you free struck. Senior management are friendly, comfortable to share inspiration and career growth plan where they support you with on mobility within the organisation

Dislikes

Some projects or the business units have the delivery pressure etc.

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Likes

I really love the company , even company cares for employees

Dislikes

Managers are really worst , lot of politics by directors and managers ,they will promise promotions and good hike but at end they will take away everything

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Likes

Most of the things you like.

Dislikes

They can innovate and improve processing a lot but from India leadership they are not that much supportive.

Work Details

They are getting multiple feedback before something getting implemented. Means that your voice is heard.

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Good work environment and culture. Teammates are supportive and the management is transparent.

Dislikes

None

Work Details

Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Policies but unfortunately it never came to us because of our management

Dislikes

I think fidelity is a good company but my management was too bad not a sing company policy I or my teammates were able to avail due to worst management

Work Details

Totally disaster

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.