Soul-sucking, but stable - Technical Writer FIS Employee Review

2.0
22 Sept 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Good work-life balance outside of release crunch. - People generally pretty nice below exec level. - Handled COVID well with shift to WFH. - Pace of work usually very slow and often predictable (also a con). - Company is big and profitable and won’t be going anywhere anytime soon.

Cons

- Below-average compensation and benefits. - Not a team atmosphere, no sense of achievement or success, just a never-ending grind. - Execs lead through fear and publicly shame entire teams on mass e-mails. - Company is so big that you can go days to weeks without having a meaningful interaction with colleagues. - Advancement seems to be based on length of service more than ability; many people who are very nice, but not really cut out for managing people and/or projects performing management functions. - Decision makers are usually people with decades at FIS and little outside perspective; tool chains and processes are dated, with few opportunities to build skills applicable outside of FIS. - Internal communications openly tell employees that their #1 motivation should be to pump the FIS share price, company “values” are lip service and nothing more. - Delusional level of agile process worship and self-back-patting in meetings when most teams are in fact just putting an agile bow on waterfall practices. - Organizational politics constantly hamper collaboration between onshore and offshore teams.

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FIS Response
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Thank you for your review and for sharing with us that you enjoyed the work-life balance and WFH opportunities at FIS. Since you are no longer an active FIS colleague, we can’t get more details on your feedback with regards to the cons you have mentioned but we wish you the best of luck.

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