Visa Inc. reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(7,512 total reviews)
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Ryan Mclenerney

67% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Visa Inc. has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,512 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Visa Inc. employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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8K reviews
1.0
Nov 26, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

-Brand name -Company is not going to go bankrupt -You can hang out and not do a lot of work, if that's what you like

Cons

-Culture of extreme fear. Always worried that you will make a mistake (on something that you were never told you should/shouldn't be doing) and be publicly humiliated for it -Lack of career growth or any career paths (unless you benefit by nepotism - e.g., are an Indian male of a specific caste) -Dishonest HR and Executive team (sold on specific benefits and growth opportunitites to be recruited, only to find them pulled away in a careless manner -Dull workplace, unless you like working on the same tasks for the rest of your career (must stay within the swim lanes and keep quiet) -Such an uptight environment (have to follow all of these steps, gain approvals from all of these things to do just the most simple tasks) -No work from home option (perception that if you're not in the office, you are not working); completely detached with reality, especially millenials -Given a good salary to start but virtually no raises/stock, promotions. Quickly, you'll realize you are falling further and further behind the comp of other Silicon Valley organizations

3.0
Dec 8, 2014

Lead your self, because no one else will.

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Visa is a great company to work for and has many international opportunities. Career progression is in your own hands, very few managers and certainly no one in HR will help you develop so go in with the mind set to make waves and burn your own path. Do not expect people to layout your path for you. Take the bull by the horns and be brave, with that and a measure of respect and dignity you will do well in the company. Your work colleagues for the most part will be wonderful and extremely diverse in their thinking and experiences. Skilled, smart and full of industry knowledge. Everyone except HR that is, there might be 5 or 6 people in the entire HR team globally who are clandestine activists among the flock of sheep. It has it's problems but I wouldn't let them discourage you from coming here.

Cons

For years employee engagement has been a key issue, and frankly a lot of people complete the surveys with high marks so their area doesn't get tasked with fixing their own issues. The underlying issues of the organization are never addressed and the responsibility of engagement is handed down to the employees who said they weren't that engaged to begin with, and they wonder why it never improves... HR is at best incompetent and at worst an insidious puppet of senior management. Socialization of employees outside of work is extremely limited

2.0
Nov 5, 2016

Toxic working environment, terrible upper management!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay and decent benefits, although they are going away rapidly. Nice facilities in all locations. There are some very good people still here.

Cons

Toxic working environment, terrible management as far as being people managers. All process and Yes people. They Are extremely forthcoming with all kinds of useless information while keeping the important information under wraps or lying about it. Been there 16 years and have watched it go from a fun exciting place to work that people where proud of to a place where people are asking to be laid off and flat out just leaving.

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