Terrible company, making terrible mistakes - Staff Software Engineer Visa Inc. Employee Review

1.0
3 Jul 2015
Recommend
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Pros

At first I was incredibly excited to be part of the Visa team. I had a great manager who allowed us lots technical freedom to innovate cutting edge solutions for the company.

Cons

Innovation is actually NOT encouraged at Visa, despite all of the vapid catch phrases trotted out by the HR people, whose only job it would seem, is to spy on and to lay off employees. Incompetence is rewarded greatly at Visa, as is being an Indian male. The EVP of Technology clearly has an agenda to destroy the company while the CEO smugly watches. Smart people have been run out the door over the last year. Others simply left around the holidays, without giving notice, to go elsewhere, since anywhere else is better. This company is a terrible place to be if you are a software engineer, or smart, or innovative, or if you want to make the company better.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Recommend
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Pros

Great co-workers, some leaders with integrity from Al Kelly time, great benefits, 401k, what used to be great WLB.

Cons

-Incompetent CTO and leadership, specially at the Sr Dr/ VP level, moved from Msft in troves. -No focus on product/features delivery using AI, rather useless AI tools to track productivity (LOC and other laughable outdated metrics). -All Optics, no innovation, decades behind Fintechs like Stripe in innovation. -Extreme toxic culture and politics at leadership level.

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