Great Brand + Horrible Employer = Visa - Anonymous employee Visa Inc. Employee Review

3.0
Mar 18, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great Brand recognition Great Compensation + Benefits Beautiful Facilities in Foster City Great exposure to Visa's payment platform Under-performing staff are not often laid-off (Great place to coast)

Cons

-If you are looking for a job that will allow you to concentrate on your brown-nosing skills as opposed to your professional skills, this is the place for you. -Teleworking is a myth and is mentioned at interviews to trick would-be candidates into accepting an offer of employment. -Visa is NOT a technology company and has no real footprint in the digital or mobile payments sectors. Internally the most sophisticated tools used are MS Suite! -The company is plagued by an epidemic of horrible managers with no mediation from HR. Unethical and unprofessional conduct is commonplace at the VP level coupled with a well-founded fear of retribution among their staff. -If you value your professional growth, are excited about working in the payments sector and want to work with bright, sociable colleagues- avoid Visa at all costs. You will eventually feel stifled by the pervasive lack of innovation and the culture of passive aggression. -Teams are extremely silo'd and uncommunicative with cohorts. You may find people unwilling to share best practices or even coach/train one another because of fear that you might do things better. The concern is NEVER with creating better, innovative or impactful solutions to problems, but maintaining sole ownership of a given task so as to be indispensable. -High turnover of staff is the norm at roughly 20% and constant re-orgs confuse things further for anyone trying to learn more about the business.

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