Apex Group reviews

2.8

44% would recommend to a friend

(1,491 total reviews)
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Peter Hughes

48% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Apex Group has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,491 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Apex Group employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Apr 12, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Company is good for work

Cons

Manager is forsing people to resign and employee not ready to put resign so they are mentally harassing the junior employee. If senior management gone then only employee can work here.

1.0
Jul 28, 2023

DO NOT JOIN Apex

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Pros

Do not join unless you want to waste your time.

Cons

Apex is a poorly managed organization. The management only promotes who they like and do not consider the actual ability that the person got. Only very few of the seniors understand the industry while the others are new to fund service. They created policies that are far beyond the market standard and judge other counter parties with it. It wont be able to offer knowledge gain or career growth since they have been trying to minimize the number of employee in Hong Kong but outsource all the work to low labor cost countries however they hire people with poor accounting knowledge in those countries which clearly lead to horrible client experience. Every year the pay rise for promotion is less than 5% and regular pay rise is almost 0%. The company is also in a very stressed financial position that it wont be able to repay its debt due to the various acquisitions it made. There is never positive cash flow to support its heavy debts and interest. Frankly speaking, I seriously doubt if Apex will manage to survive in the next 5years. From a wider perspective, if you look at the number of job advisement/recruitment during the year, it is not hard to understand that the employee turnover rate is high given that everyone wants to escape. Now guess what is left in Apex after the good persons are gone. 90% of the experience support staff, such as HR, general admin, IT have resigned, the company structure is a total mess now but it still considers itself as the top 5 fund admin. Peter Huges and his team really has no shame.

1.0
Apr 1, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Central location that is the only thing I can say - please avoid this place

Cons

- arrogant management who are very aggressive - that need to have a look at themselves - they think they are on Wall Street - a back office fund admin - very cheap organization - often a case of no toilet roll. - poor systems -poor pay - glorified titles with little or no pay increase - management that try to push people to the point of breaking point and are so aggressive it can have a serious impact on ones life. - not good for ones mental health - favored terms for ex DB people

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Apex Group Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. The mental health of our employees is taken very seriously, as is the whole employee experience. We will highlight this review to local Ireland management and HR for future action planning.
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