Consultants

Kyle,
Account Executive

I was at a recruiting event at my alma mater, Villanova University, waiting for a friend when these two women came over to me and asked if I’d heard of FactSet and we got to talking. After that I went ahead and applied for the position.

My second interview was an on-site interview in the New York office and I think that’s when I realized how much I wanted to work for FactSet. I could tell what a tight knit community there was and everyone seemed really friendly.

I’d been expecting that really intense, typical banking interview where they ask you all these brain teasers but at FactSet the interview was a lot more about trying to get to know me as a person. Their questions were really geared towards how I would fit into the corporate environment and how I would interact with clients. It was very personality based, which I wasn’t expecting.

FactSet’s a great place to launch your career. That’s the one thing that I never really expected coming out of college. You hear from so many people how they start off at one job, they bounce to another, they go back to school, they go to another role. I figured I would have the same path, that FactSet would be a two to three year stint and then I would move on. But this quickly became a career path for me rather than just another job and I’m couldn’t be happier that I took a chance and came on board.

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Chris,
Consulting Manager

When I was unhappy with my previous job and I was looking for a career change, my friend’s wife told me about the company she worked for, which turned out to be FactSet. I did a little research and it seemed like a great company and a growing industry. I’ve been with FactSet for a little over four and a half years now and I’ve been a manager for about two.

FactSet has offered me a very positive experience and excellent career development. You don’t have to pay dues in a role for 5 years before you can have an impact on the company and make higher level decisions. At FactSet, the more responsibility you can handle and the harder you work, the more responsibility you’re given. I think that the fact that you could become a manager and have direct reports so quickly if you prove yourself says a lot about FactSet and the opportunity that’s offered here in general.

In the time I’ve been here I’ve been in three different roles. I’ve worked as a Consultant, a Fixed Income PA Specialist and now as a Consulting Manager. Beyond the opportunity that we have here, one thing I also love about FactSet is that we have such a great balance of people that I get to work with and interact with on a daily basis. It makes it very easy for me to do my job effectively and enjoy coming to work every day.

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Alex,
Account Executive

I’ve been with FactSet for over three years now and I came right out of college. I think what really drew me to FactSet was the low key corporate culture we have here. It was definitely different from other stuffy office environments that you often come by in this business.

I think definitely one of my favorite aspects of working here would have to be my team. I recently switched offices and that transition was definitely alleviated by the fact that everyone was so welcoming when I first arrived here.

In addition to the people I’m constantly excited by my job. As an account executive, I’m always talking to prospective clients and getting a chance to meet new people. What’s exciting is the unpredictability – you never know what’s going to happen. The ability to create something out of nothing is definitely a part of my job worth getting excited about.

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Lily,
Investment Management Consultant

I found out about FactSet at a recruiting event when I was at BU for grad school. What I really liked about FactSet as a company was that the business is really about helping people make better decisions.

I think for me, being a math major, I really liked the fact that people would come to you and they’d have a problem and you’d have to just try and solve it logically with some of the tools that you have, from what you’ve learned being on the support desk or in client meetings. FactSet’s a constant learning environment. That’s probably one of the biggest things I was looking for, I didn’t want to be with a company for a year and think “Oh, I’ve learned everything.”

It’s really important to me to work hard but I also want to enjoy it at the same time. At FactSet I feel like I’m able to do both. Whether it’s our colleagues or whether it’s or clients or just communicating to the engineers, it sounds so dorky saying it, but you really need to appreciate the social aspect. One of my favorite things about FactSet is that people will go out of their way to help you when you have a problem. Everyone wants to see you succeed. So, the people I work with are definitely my favorite aspect of FactSet.

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Mat,
Investment Management Consultant

I came to FactSet straight out of college and I’ve been here for about a year and a half now. I had some offers when I was graduating but based on the things I’d read online about the standard of life and the way things operate at FactSet I really believed this was the place for me.

It’s a funny thing because work is such a huge part of our lives now; so you really appreciate your company when you’re sitting around talking to your friends and they tell you about all the issues they have at their current location. Just recently I ended up getting one of my friends an interview with FactSet because he was so unhappy at his previous firm.

At FactSet you just have such a family environment. Your managers and the other consulting execs have been in your shoes and so they really look out for you. It’s great too because everyone here has pretty much an open door policy so you can come in and easily talk to the sales manager of the office or the regional director and it’s not at all out of the ordinary.

Some of the best things about working here are definitely the people you work with and the clients you are helping. We have a close-knit team structure and everyone is always willing to help. You also have access to a range of financial professionals ranging from research analysts to CIO’s, so it gives you great exposure to some brilliant minds in finance.

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Engineers

Julie,
Software Engineer

After working in Chicago for a few years, I moved to New Haven and was looking for a job. I heard from a friend of a friend that FactSet was hiring and decided to apply.

I have been working on the Symbology team for about a year now. We deal with all the different types of symbols that clients use to look up information on companies and their financial instruments (Tickers, SEDOLs, CUSIPs, etc). These symbols change often and we have to make sure that when a client is searching in FactSet they will always find what they are looking for.

The most interesting project I have worked on was a new website to help our Product Developers see the status of some of our nightly updates. It was challenging as I had to write a new interface to our databases in a language I was not familiar with, but it was exciting to use a technology that I hadn’t used before.

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Niki,
Software Engineer

Before a career fair at the University of Michigan, I looked over all of the companies that were going to be attending.  I'd already heard of FactSet from a good friend and I saw them listed, so I did some more research and was really interested.

I've now been a Software Engineer at FactSet for one year.  I'm on an infrastructure team, which I enjoy because the projects are challenging and I get to work with a lot of different areas of our code base.

The best thing about FactSet is the opportunity to be independent; should you seek responsibility, you can find it here.  Accountability is an inevitable part of the package, but that's not to say that the atmosphere is viciously competitive--on the contrary, everyone wants you to succeed.  Seeing an entire project through to the end and receiving recognition for your accomplishments is incredibly rewarding.

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Albert,
Director of Analytical Product Engineering

When I was in college at Cornell, I applied for an internship position with FactSet. I went through the interview process, but didn’t end up getting the position. A couple of years later, when I was thinking of where I wanted to apply for full time jobs after graduation, I remembered the good impression I got from FactSet during my internship search.

I applied for an entry-level software engineer position and got the job. Right out of training I started working with our Portfolio products. Over the years, the scope of my projects and the depth of my responsibilities have grown immensely. I’ve been at FactSet for seven years now, and I am currently the Director of Analytical Product Engineering at FactSet.

I really enjoy being part of the FactSet team. If you have a question, there is always someone willing to help you. It’s a great feeling to know that the person beside you is working with you, not competing against you. That team mentality is what allows us to excel.

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Michael,
Security Engineer

I have been a Security Engineer at FactSet since August 2005. Part of my job at FactSet is creating training modules to make everyone more security aware. We give everyone a way to integrate our security into their work, not just a book of rules. I have gotten to travel to other offices to let everyone know how we do our work. We have improved security and made it more global.

Right now I am updating our security center and data centers and adding new technology to them. It can be daunting because I’m touching devices that are the front line for all of our applications; you have to be careful and test a lot and check yourself again and again.

What I like about working for FactSet is the culture. It is different in that there are a lot of smart, driven people who all seem to push each other to be better and towards a common goal. There is a unique collaboration that tends to go on here. We strive to work ahead of the curve rather than to wait and react. I am eager to get up and come to work now. I spend more of my day thinking FactSet things than I did at my previous job, and that is what leads to the creation of new ideas or the improvements of old processes.

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Caleb,
Network Engineer

A member of FactSet's Recruiting team reached out to me after seeing my resume on a job board. After talking with him, I decided to visit the FactSet website to get a better idea of the company and what it might be like to work there. I read the employee testimonials on the “Meet the FactSetters” page and noticed that one of the employees worked in networking –my field. FactSet had piqued my interest and we set up an interview.

I've been at FactSet for a year and a half now. One of the great things about a company of our size is the large swath of technology and equipment we get to work with. The company I was at before FactSet was so large, that employees were all specialized in very specific areas. I never got to sample all of the different things that are out there; but at FactSet, I can do that.

I'm a pretty tall guy, so I play on the FactSet basketball team. The activities, events, and charity work that FactSetters participate in definitely make the company stand out from other places I have worked. These things build an amazing camaraderie between employees. It is a fun company to be a part of.

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Product Developers

Sheila,
Senior Content Manager

Back in 1995, I found FactSet somewhat by chance. I wasn't really looking for a new position but saw an intriguing ad in my local newspaper (yes, newspaper!). I followed up and went through several rounds of interviews. Everything seemed to click from the very beginning. My prospective manager and I discussed opportunities at innovation that I knew would be afforded to me at few other places. When I visited the office, I could see that the company made an effort to ensure the environment for employees was comfortable and pleasant. I met many people who seemed equally interested in ensuring that FactSet was a good fit for me in addition to assessing my qualifications for the position. Everybody impressed me with their intelligence, the level of involvement with their work, and dedication to the company. On a more personal level, I genuinely liked everyone I met.

I started in the Documentation group and attended Consulting training and worked on the client support desk for a while. I really enjoyed talking to our clients and was quite impressed with our client roster. One thing that was so different from most service experiences I had previously was that the answers to nearly all client requests were affirmative. A client would call looking for a particular piece of data and we almost always offered it. I was also really impressed with the turnaround time for new features in our software and the quality of work produced by our engineering team.

Although I enjoyed writing documentation, I moved into the Product Development group about a year after joining FactSet. As a product developer, I am always kept busy creating new features for our software. I believe my work has a positive impact on the client experience.

It has been very exciting to be a part of FactSet's huge growth. In a lot of good ways, the company has stayed much the same. It's fun to reminisce at the annual get together with my 1995 Consulting classmates. I work with some frequently, but there are others who I don't see as often, so it is great to catch up.

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Eric,
Director of Product Development

I have had the opportunity to be so many things at FactSet; I started off as a Consultant and eventually became the Consulting Manager. Based on all the client interaction and product exposure I had in Consulting, my skill set led me to move into Product Development. I’ve been a director for several FactSet product lines for the past few years, and I continue to enjoy designing the reports and applications and databases that allow our clients to monitor and analyze their investment ideas. 

I learned about the Consultant position at FactSet at my college's career fair. I became interested because I thought the products were fantastic. FactSet was a unique company that understood the workflow and problems of asset managers and investment bankers. Years later, it's thriving in developing applications that provide the data, models, and workflow tools that financial professionals need to make investment decisions. I liked that it was a job that allowed me to apply my background in finance and interests in programming to help our clients use and customize our software.

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David,
Product Specialist

I originally applied for a job as a Consultant at FactSet, but after talking to a current employee, I thought that product development would be a better fit for me. I started as a Research Specialist, working on database development for Economics. During that work, I got into a lot of the code and application aspect, and that really interested me.

Now, a year and a half later, I'm working as a Product Specialist. I get to do more work with the actual development of the product and enhancing how clients use it.

In college, I was a math and physics major. I always liked physics more because you got to use math. With what I'm doing now, I get to use data to make interesting tools that help clients apply that data, or that present that data in a different way.

I appreciate that FactSet offers a creative way of working. Here you can explore your own problem-solving techniques and create solutions for yourself. You are never forced into a mold.

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Brahim,
Content Specialist

I started at FactSet right out of college. I had seen a job listing for a Research Specialist in Economics on my school's career site. After a phone interview, I was brought into the headquarters in Norwalk for an in-person interview. Shortly after that I was offered the position.

In under a year I was promoted to Content Specialist, a title that brings added responsibility, project management, and independence. I really enjoy the freedom to manage my projects and set my own pace to achieve my goals.

The best thing about working at FactSet is the ability to work with great people. You have the ability to learn a lot and at the same time be part of a company that still has a ton of potential in the marketplace. It's a great opportunity, especially for people just launching their careers.

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Eunice,
Associate Product Manager

I came in as a Consultant in January 2007. After I’d been in consulting about two years my Consulting Manager took me aside and asked me what area I might be interested in moving into. At the time I wasn’t sure, but I thought maybe a specialist role could be a fit. She put me in touch with the Senior Product Manager in the Portfolio Products group and he described what the job entailed. Product Development sounded both challenging and interesting to me, so I signed on.

I found as a former Consultant that I was able to use the knowledge I had from working with the product to better support and develop it in my new field. In less than three years I was promoted to Senior Product Developer and then eventually I became an Associate Product Manager.

I love my job because I enjoy problem solving. I enjoy the collective problem solving at FactSet and the ability to work with different people. Everyone here is really talented. And people have different kinds of talents. That’s a pretty fun aspect of the company. Not only are people talented but they are talented in different ways and you get to interact with them and coordinate their knowledge and come up with a solution that can then be passed on to clients.

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