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Fidelity Investments

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Micromanagement reigns as employees are left to wither away - Financial Representative Fidelity Investments Employee Review

1.0
22 Mar 2015
Recommend
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Pros

They will hire you right out of college and pay you a decent salary with good benefits. The facilities are nice and some of your coworkers can be friendly. Training and L&D structure is quite good.

Cons

Incompetent management who are only around to spy on employees every waking moment of the day. They drill you with metrics and are quick to point out the negative aspects of your performance while glossing over any positive aspects. For example, you could be leading your team in trade accuracy yet they will berate you for the fact you take a few extra seconds in between calls to wrap things up. Your metrics suffer if you have to use the restroom when you aren't on a break (often times you go a 3 or 3.5-hour stretch without one). Your schedule is outside of your control and offers no room for any leeway (I would always have break and lunch at different times every single day of the week). If you work on a schedule where you have to work on weekends there is almost zero chance of you ever getting a Saturday or Sunday off. Many of your coworkers and managers are rude, narcissistic egoists who will do anything to get ahead. There is almost no room for upward mobility if you start in the call center - something made very clear early on. It's just an endless line of phone jobs, finding a spot where you aren't working on the phone is exceedingly rare. Despite the fact that it does pay well, reps are still underpaid for the amount of work they must do. Full traders are almost always sitting in a position where there are 20+ calls holding all day for the entire 10 hour shift. Soul-crushing monotony with zero work/life balance, this job will inevitably make you wish you would get in a fatal car accident on the way in to work.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Benefits including profit sharing and bonuses are great. The breadth of this company provides a great opportunity to try out different career paths or boost your current one.

Cons

In my current role, I am working overtime more often than I'd like with recognition that seems to only go so far until it sizzles out. That may be tied to the size of the company itself, where promotions work in a "trickle down" manner.

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