Fidessa reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(449 total reviews)
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Chris Aspinwall

78% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Fidessa has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 449 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fidessa employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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449 reviews
1.0
Aug 31, 2018

Horrible experience but apparently now they're cleaning house.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

It's not as dysfunctional as the current White house. And they did just fire a long time manager that was likely the biggest soul sucker of a human being in the company. Anyone reading this who works there knows exactly who I'm referring to. Basically, join this company if you're interested to pursue a further career in finance tech elsewhere, where you'll deal with the same behavior but at least get paid handsomely for it.

Cons

Too many to list. But the biggest is no respect for employee growth. and no adequate training or learning environment (partially because the technology is legacy) Just as bad is there is absolutely zero communication between group members (of course this is because team leads just stare into a computer and type for 8 hours straight) Made to feel stupid if you ask questions, usually through passive aggressive comments made by Brits that have watched too much Monty Python. After my own leaving, there was a mass exodus of employees akin to rats leaving a sinking ship. I heard through friends that management made some paltry effort to "learn why this was happening" by polling the employees still there and asking what could be improved on. Of course these employees all had families and financial responsibilities, therefore couldn't be honest with how they truly felt. Also, unless you're white and hail in part from the UK, you have zero chance in management.

1.0
Jul 15, 2018

Stay away

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Pros

Good work life balance, competitive salary and great benefits. Provided you keep your head down and nose to the grindstone.

Cons

1. Office cliques (white, male, British/scottish/irish). Most managers fall into these cliques, keep similar employees of similar racial characteristics together. No diversity. 2. Managers are unprofessional, micro managers, steal ideas/credit from smart people. 3. Senior Management have no real leadership qualities. CEO down to VP level mostly got there by just "surviving" in the company for decades. 4. Company had great vision and mission. But the so called "managers" don't know how to execute that mission. They don't listen to employees.

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Fidessa Response
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It is unfortunate that you did not raise the concerns with either your manager or HR during the 8 years that you worked at Fidessa. We strive to offer programs which recognize contributions from all levels of employees. We also great take pride in our high retention and tenure rates which has contributed to the tremendous success of Fidessa to date. We are always happy to listen to concerns that our employees may have and, would be more than happy for you to contact us directly to discuss the above points otherwise, we wish you the best of luck in your future.
3.0
Jun 6, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Smart, hard working team of people, making best in class smart trading platform software. You could feel proud to work there.

Cons

New owners, Ion Group, do not value their own people or their customers. They bought Fidessa supposedly for their best-in-class solutions and now they are not so slowly taking away all of the tools to create those solutions. Their message is: we don't value your talent, we don't value the bond you created with your customers, we don't think those values make good business sense.

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