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FNZ

3.5
  • #2 in Banking & financial services
  • 1,000 - 50,000 employees

FNZ Reviews

Based on 23 surveyed graduates working at FNZ. Read on to get an insider’s view on life as a graduate.
3.5
Based on 23 reviews

Pros & Cons

  • Interesting work and a great community of employees. There's fairly constant work on improving the developer experience and a nascent grad program that's solidly improving.
  • The office culture is great, the people around me everyday are very supportive and have always been able to make time to provide instruction on any process. The onboarding process too is well built and having assigned buddies and trainers means we always have points of call. The pay is also very competitive for a graduate position.
  • Young and friendly culture that rewards individuals who perform well
  • The people are amazing. FNZ hire smart, hard working and amazing people. Having these people among me, personally I think, allow me to grow at quite high rate.
  • There are a lot of opportunities for collaboration and opportunities for socialisation
  • FNZ has high expectations of workload and overtime, BUT you are mostly protected from this as a grad and they do pay overtime :)
  • FNZ is a fast moving business to put it lightly. Anyone looking to loaf around for eight hours a day will not go under the radar for long. While there frequently is OT available, it is never a requirement of staff, only requested. This leaves setting a good work life balance still in your hands.
  • Pressure to perform well and expectations to doovertime during crunch time
  • Sometimes I feel like the tasks assigned to me much beyond my knowledge. I think I could learn to do it but need more time to digest the new things
  • Overall I think FNZ is good, however sometimes the workload can be quite high, however I think this well communicated during the recruitment process. So coming to FNZ, I already had rough idea of how the workload would be

What Insiders Say

7.2
Career Prospects
7.2
Career Prospects
Promotion opportunities are based off of work ethic and willingness to help the company grow rather than time spent in the company which means that it is all on you as to whether you get promoted or not which I like.
7.2
Corporate Social Responsibility
7.2
Corporate Social Responsibility
FNZ has been working in the background on FNZ Impact, which allows users on some of the platforms where it's being rolled out to see ESG factors around various investment products, allowing individuals to consider those investments more broadly. To me, when it's not a part of the actual product a company sells, I don't take corporate social responsibility or sustainability claims from companies very seriously, comes off as greenwashing to me. But I do think it's more genuine when it's something they're actually incorporating into their business offering.
7.1
Culture
7.1
Culture
Coworkers are great, nothing but good things to say about them. Generally a highly intelligent and capable bunch, happy to support others when they can with various issues; good team. Not a lot of after hours activities (which is fine), company itself fairly regularly runs cultural events to get people together for a morning tea or something in office which is nice. Fairly well defined hierarchy, which has both pros and cons.
7.7
Diversity
7.7
Diversity
Everything that I've seen indicates that the company is pretty good this stuff. We have a pretty diverse office which is cool. Would be good if we had more female devs but I think this is an industry wide problem. I haven't noticed any issues in terms of DEI stuff.
7.1
Satisfaction
7.1
Satisfaction
The day to day work is rewarding, coming in each day will see you face a new technical challenge or bug to resolve. This has meant, for me at least, that the days never seem to drag on or get boring. There's plenty to learn and FNZ do put a lot of effort into training those with a technical background in financial concepts too.
7.4
Management
7.4
Management
Always can contact our managers in person or teams/email. They are good mentors and giving us constant feedback and updates regarding our journey in FNZ
8.2
Office Work Environment
8.2
Office Work Environment
The office is clean, modern and fitted out with coffee machines, and various games for breaks during the day.
7.0
Recruitment
7.0
Recruitment
You can't really prepare much for the tests, as the technical knowledge is only a small part. The main consideration is the interview, they really want to find someone they think will be a good fit for the company. If you want to do well in that, learn what the goal of the company is and be open to change and trying new things. They want people that genuinely want to learn and grow at the company, and it can be a high pace environment that requires flexibility
7.2
Salary
7.2
Salary
The pay is great and there is great opportunities for bonuses. The healthcare is pretty exceptional
6.8
Training
6.8
Training
I think as graduates we got really good training. It's 1 year training which involves a lot of different area of the business. I personally think it's really good, and I can see that they take training(especially for graduates) seriously
7.3
Work Hours
7.3
Work Hours
I work 8-5. The company is reasonably flexible and the feeling most people have is that as long as they are doing their 8 hours a day then you can be pretty flexible. If you have a dentist appointment or something for like 2 hours in the middle of the day you can spend an hour of your lunch and then make up the other hour on the backend of your day. I'm pretty happy with this and just the fact that I can move my lunch hour around as well.
7.3
Sustainability
7.3
Sustainability
I'm aware of company policies aimed at reducing our sustainability as much as possible, and we also have a product aimed at helping our clients to do the same thing.