Talent Welcome - Director Visa Inc. Employee Review

2.0
Nov 12, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Brand name Flexible time Good Co-workers History,Stable

Cons

Stay Away if you don't want to : 1.Suddenly Lose your Pension Plan or other Health Benefits through great communication 2.Get Lectured about OpenSource from a CIO who we was in Microsoft for more than 10 years 3.Accept Steve Balmer is the greatest executive ever. 4.Be a Part of the Bobble Head Tech Leadership team. 5.Surrounded by East Coast Bankers who have discovered West Coast disruption who will now tell you that VISA is just like Uber, Airbnb and Farmer's Insurance. 6.Use Amazing tools like Outlook,Skype for item#7 mentioned below. 7.Participate in Endless meetings followed by 100 lines of meeting minutes. 8.Receive an amazing Dell Laptop with 8 gb memory and 120 gb hard-drive. 9.Agree that API's provided by VISA will create another Unicorn within Bank Of America,Chase,and Other Bank's. 10.Frequently hear the following words: "Hackathon", "Github", "Innovation", "Strategy" ,"Long Term x" where x can be replaced with anything for e.g "Stupidity" , "Screw up" etc 11.You are from Stanford,MIT,Georgia Tech,HAAS,HBS,Columbia etc get the drift? 12.Like Uniformity and Conformity. 13.Accept PHD's are leadership material just like Marissa Meyer. 14.Become a Subject Matter Expert and stay with the same project no longer than Lifetime. 15.Got to a town-hall meeting and discover your CIO's favorite store for his shopping needs. 16.Be a part of multi layered hierarchical and non diverse team.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Feb 11, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Comp is decent (although the current CEO is cutting everyone's bonus other than his and the leadership team it seems) Solid place for someone to start their career but would recommend leaving after a few years Work / Life balance is good Read the 2 stars as 3 stars for someone fresh out of school and 1 star after that.

Cons

For mid-career or beyond, joining the company is a pretty bad experience. There's a ton of long term relationships / politics that lead to incompetent folks being promoted simply because of who they know. This then breeds a culture where high performers in lower levels are laid off because they're a threat to the incompetent leaders. Overall pace is incredibly slow and bureaucratic with most people looking to find reasons not to do things vs. doing them. While there are some bright spots in the company--the average level of talent is pretty mediocre so you won't find your thinking challenged by others often.

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