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Managers and senior execs that have survived here for years know how to play the political game and get involved in the right projects where they will get exposure, often leaving others that they are threatened by out. Also, because many people have been here for years (over 10 or 20 years in their roles), they have not kept up w/ what is going on in other workplaces. Thus many are not up to speed on the latest tech advancements, despite claiming to be AI and ML and analytics experts. One senior director couldn't even use PowerPoint or Excel at any level beyond typing words/numbers and thus always required help from external designers or other staff (and never gave them credit). The FICO score group is good, but the technology group is behind FinTechs that are much savvier, better w/ CX, UI/UX, tech, cloud and offer a true customer-first experience. For this reason, I would not recommend working here. The marketing group is also behind in terms of tech they use, as systems are not integrated making MROI not feasible, and poor customer lists make nurturing customer relationships impossible. Behind the times. HR is also a political mess. RIFs have been going on, albeit quietly. An all-white male board is also disconcerting in today's diverse workplace and tells you something about the company. Go someplace that's savvy and doing it right and appreciate talent and experience. *Note there are some great, smart people here too. But I still would not recommend for the aforementioned reasons.

Overall, I enjoyed working for FICO. Initially the benefits were great, but as time went on they worsened. The company can't really be blamed for that as the new federal laws come in to play.
Co-workers, more often than not, extremely helpful and kind.
Training not always easy to come by. I relied most heavily on co-workers with more experience when introduced to a new area to be learned. The upside is the availability of online learning tools.
The majority of the managers that I worked with were very helpful.
It is difficult at times to get promotions and raises.
The company assesses reviews on a bell curve, meaning that 2% of employees will get a bad review, and very few allowed to get really good reviews. Most people will fall into the mid category of 'achieved expectations'.
The work/life balance seems more dependent on the team you are on and the role within that team.

No career growth.
 Senior management has no long term vision.
 Old knowledge.
 Nothing new is created.
 Compensation is not fair.
 If you want to get promotion or higher salary, you need to have connections. Promotion is not based on real skills.
 They love PowerPoint instead of real skills.
 Managers take credit for employees’ work and employees get no recognition.

Advice to Management
They need to recognize employees who are really contributing to the company. No more fake promotion. For example, one unqualified colleague in design team got promoted to a senior engineer role two weeks after his access to engineering environments was removed. And he was unassigned from all engineering related projects. What kind of promotion is that? (Send to the roof!)

It was only 4 hours per day paid but usually required 5 or 6 hours to complete all work in an excellent manner. No opportunity for growth or advancement at this particular location.  Great work experience at deskside support.    A great place to be challenged as they are mostly data scientists doing cutting edge work involving data science including machine learning.  I learned all about imaging systems both pc and mac, data migration using encryption, TPM and User state migration tool.  Inventory control and monitoring were important to attend to daily.  The hardest part of the job is staying ahead of all the regular imaging and inventory work while also handling help desk type issues within the daily time frame.  The most enjoyable part of the job is rubbing shoulders with intelligent hard working and dedicated people from all walks of life.  The other equally enjoyable part is working with your peers all across the country and Great Britain as well.  We would collaborate in twice-weekly meetings that were stimulating and productive.  I highly recommend working here.

The days start early and end late; as a global company with presence in multiple areas around the world, it is not uncommon having meetings starting 5am, while wrapping up the work day after midnight. 
Very fast paced environment, with always changing priorities and goals.
Learned a lot about banking industry, fraud detection & management, customer relations, and technical skills. 
Management team is interested in increasing stock price and eps,no matter the cost.
The team is diverse and mostly built of very capable and dedicated professionals, which are very focused on improving the products as well as the clients' relationships. 
The job is extremely demanding, in hours, complexity, responsibilities and deliverables. 
One of the best parts of the job is exposure to the latest technologies, in addition to working with industry lead and cutting edge business analytic and big data research.

Fair Isaac was the best experience I have ever had during my career. There was never a typical day at work, which provided me with an outstanding opportunity to learn, grow and be better at my craft daily. The management team was instrumental in providing all the necessary tools to perform your job well and help you to always strive to be better. My colleagues were the best and continually mentored the staff. We were all a team and treated each other like the client. The more difficult parts of the job were juggling the many responsibilities as a result of lay-offs during tough economic times. You took on whatever was necessary to make sure the job was done and done well. I will always be greatful for having met such a brilliant and talented group of individuals that treated everyone on a level playing ground.

This review is specifically for the Consumer Scores division (myFICO division).  The other FICO divisions are much better, but not myFICO.  myFICO is poorly managed by a several SVPs who are nothing but glorified paper pushers who sounded good but have zero leadership capabilities.  It's a revolving door for a lot of the various departments especially Marketing and Product teams.  There is absolutely no career path whatsoever regardless of how well you perform (3% annual increment is considered excellent, while most are only getting around 1-2 %).  But if you brown-nose and suck up to the upper management, they might take notice and throw you a carrot from time to time.  Such a shame because FICO has such a good brand equity, and they know it and abuse that to their advantage.  If you have to join FICO, work anywhere but myFICO division.

I worked at FICO for just under two years and it was one of the worst professional experiences I ever had.  The cause was that the Revenue Accountant managers told you one thing and said another behind closed doors.  Instead of working with you to help you succeed, they just let you fend for yourself with no help whatsoever.  The culture is absolutely toxic as management pits employees against each other because they feel it will make people work harder.  It has the opposite effect and they cycle through employees like clockwork because they either fire them or they wind up quitting.  If you want a positive work environment stay clear of FICO, especially within the Revenue Accounting department.

Daily processes: is creating SCCM packaging AutoIT or PowerShell to deploy packages for either upgrading existing software, installing new software or patching vulnerabilities.

Projects include: creating PCI compliant environments, Migrating Exchange to a hosted solution, and implementing high security Network communications by collaboration with Networking team

Skills utilized:
Widows Server management
Creating Servers and Desktops in Virtual Environment (VM and Hyper-V)
SCCM 2007 and 2012, Managing, Servers, Packaging, Distributions point, Scope and boundaries.
Scripting in Powershell, VB, Basic, AutoIT
Dealing with High level issues and finding company wide solutions to Vulnerabilities.

I worked from 7-4 daily.
I performed Office Management tasks such as building maintenance, security badges for employees, on boarding new hires with I9 forms and space planning.

Administrative duties: Managed the booking for in house meetings, Assist the EA with mailings, Board Meeting materials, catering for in house meetings, Managed all onsite Corporate events, team building, Holiday Parties. Had high visibility with the C level Executives and the Board Members. 

Very busy days with varies tasks to perform.
Overall a great company to work for.

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