Fidessa reviews about "career progression"

Not much career progression in Fidessa

Fidessa have been bought over by ION Group and are implementing redundancies without giving clear reasons as to why this needs to be done. Communication around the redundancies is non-existant and they have managed to annoy pretty much every employee by only offering statutory redundancy packages and not being clear on the selection process or why the redundancies are needed. Yearly bonus was paid a couple of months late with no communication as to why and the annual pay review was postponed again without communication. ION have taken what was a relatively good workplace and ruined any good will their employees had. No real career progression prospects.

Lack of career path and progression

Slow career progression. Salary not as high as other places.

No career progression and hard to get any salary increase.

There is no clear sense of direction given to employees as to how their work fit into the bigger picture. Technologies used are old and outdated, or are non-transferable, specific to this company only.

- low base salary - no career progression - some manager are useless

Management has become more draconian since the takeover. The lack of communication, the impending redundancies and what I am sure will be a laughably insulting pay review process are the symptoms of the culture rot since ION have entered the fray. There aren't really any opportunities for career progression and the continued use of outdated technology make this an unattractive place to work for the more ambitious.

Mostly uninteresting maintenance work Not-invented-here Syndrome attitude towards everything (including standard libraries), with in-house technology being used wherever possible Little use of industry-standard software technologies and standards (except FIX) Low pay rises and frequently late bonus payments No real opportunities for career progression within the company