First Derivatives Reviews

The worst thing, by far, about working for FD are the people you will have to work with. There are some nice people that do work there, however, for the main part they are unfriendly, rude and extremely hard to work alongside on a daily basis. It is very much an "Irish" company so expect politics to be brought into the workplace by certain members of staff. When you start you will be made to pay for your own checks (criminal and credit). There is next to no training and you are very much thrown in at the deep end and expected to be up to speed quickly with FD's software, which is a nightmare to use. There is no formal training and people are either too busy to do it, or disinterested. Let there be no illusions, this is not a finance company and you will not be performing any sort of financial role. It provides IT services TO financial companies and you will end up doing IT support, database administration or other similar menial roles. The compensation is very low compared to market rates, especially for graduate and junior positions. You will be expected to put in hours beyond what is in your contract. You won't get thanked for this, never mind overtime. When negotiating salary they will low ball you with some silly figure - you can bump this up. Management are very disjointed from their staff. As someone else has said, there's very much a "them vs us" approach and they don't care about their employees or have any sympathy for anything going on in your personal life.

There are no words to describe how much I absolutely hate this company. Not sure who's still running it but the former managers/HR/senior leads have to be some of the worst, most toxic horrible people I've ever encountered in my life. It's actually laughable how cocky they act too, despite most of them riding off the coat tails of some local man who decided to put a multi national HQ in the most toxic, backwards town in the country. God help you if you had a "southern" accent. Truly a curse of my life that I wasted so much time here due to their blatant lies and fabrications. I genuinely worry about the mindsets of these people because how is it possible for people to be so evil? It felt akin to being at some halfway house or prison because you've committed some horrible crime, that's the way these people treated their employees.