Fiserv has been slowly blackballing itself for years. Nowadays, only the H1-B, desperate, or the naive will bother working for them in the smaller tech markets, because they simply burned too many bridges and word has gotten out.
When I worked there, I started with another person at the same time. He left within two months. He told me why since he heard about it from a friend of his who was an ex-employee, so he jumped to another job as soon as he could. I should have followed his example, but I was dumb enough to think that skill would trump executive greed and politics. Instead, I won the layoff lottery two years later.
Almost every other year now during the perennial Fiserv hiring surges, I get recruiters sniffing around my door asking if I'd be interested in going back to Fiserv. Even though I'm fully eligible to, I've always refused, and unless I ever become desperate, that will remain my answer.
Originally posted by @roh+14QMAssn.