Fidelity – Location bias, network hiring, language silos, and culture shifts from prior Big Tech experience - post regarding Fidelity Investments layoffs

Fidelity – Location bias, network hiring, language silos, and culture shifts from prior Big Tech experience

Quick observations from colleagues across Fidelity sites:

Heavy reliance on personal networks for hiring (often relatives/friends from India via H-1B/transfers) → opportunities stay within tight groups.
Frequent non-English communication (Hindi, Telugu, Tamil) in teams → harder for others to participate fully.
Some regional cliques/tensions (North vs. South Indian) → minor friction in team dynamics.
Manager concentration in NC (Raleigh-Durham) and Boston → Westlake (TX) employees feel work gets less recognition, with favoritism toward co-located East teams (“out of sight, out of mind”).
A few ex-Infosys/TCS folks bring limited knowledge-sharing habits → siloed work, reduced collaboration, and poorer team culture in affected groups.

Anyone seeing similar patterns in Westlake, NC, Boston, or elsewhere? Share anonymously below—helps gauge if it's widespread or team-specific.

#Hiring #Nepotism #CultureShift #H1B #Favoritism

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@pq why you don’t need this diversity at L1 , L2 or L3 level ? Your selective pointing of one group shows your inherent bias and suggest you do some introspection

Yes, I should've used the term "H1B origined". Current legal status doesn't change the caliber and culture of a person. Fidelity tech desperately need some diversity as > 70% overall and 100% of teams and orgs are single origioned.

@kp you're someone who will think anyone who's not white are H1B

So I refuse to give explanations to doorkobs

@js, Fidelity may stopped H1B for junior level positions starting last year but go walk in hall of tech teams you'll get what the OP says. H1B during the past two decades has injected nobody knows how many into Fidelity to the point that teams are teams and orgs after orgs are 100%.

I call BS on this

Fidelity has stopped all h1b processing, all HR personnel responsible for handling immigration were set free last year itself.

If you're current employee on H1b, you'll be part of firm till your extension is due before they ask you to set free

Anyone working here would not be surprised by this at all. Yes this is very standard behavior for all clicks within this company

There are no true decisions makers in fidelity , all these SVP, VP roles are just ceremonial and has zero decision making capacity . All the decisions are taken in L1 level and just cascaded to other layers for execution

This perception may apply at Grade 7 and below, but the reality changes entirely at the executive & true decision-making levels. Look across L1 and L2 ( even 90% L3s) it shows virtually no such representation as if intentionally keeping that way .
The folks you mentioned are limited to hands-on execution roles, while senior leadership positions almost exclusively go to one group.

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