Baird reviews

4.2

90% would recommend to a friend

(657 total reviews)
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Steven Booth

96% approve of CEO

88% positive business outlook

Baird has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 657 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Baird employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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657 reviews
3.0
Aug 26, 2022
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Pros

Besides the health insurance (which was terrible) the benefits were pretty good. PTO was good although it is combined with sick time. The company seems to value it's employees.

Cons

In the industry their pay scale is quite low. Especially in this role the only way to get a decent total compensation plan is for the advisors you service to revenue share with you. In my experience this isn't something they are very willing to do. Even if they're making 500k+ they aren't interested in shaving off 20k so you can make a comparable amount to other firms. The base salary range that you get from home office is quite low. As a CS you really have no chance to move into an advisor role. Even if you are told there is a chance, I would be quite skeptical. The financial advisor training program based out of Milwaukee seems to be the only way to work into that role at this point. This role locks you into very minimal raises with almost no long term upside.

3.0
Sep 1, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Stock ROI is good Midwest location

Cons

Unbelievably two-faced when it comes to inclusion and diversity. They are very good at marketing diversity but doing very poorly in terms of advancing it internally. The firm simply does not want to hear any complaints from women and/or minorities and heaven help you if you do raise an issue. They will find a way to retaliate and silence you. There is also way too much coddling of the whiny next gen. It is truly ridiculous— the firm has emboldened these snowflakes to file complaints against their colleagues or higher ups for the smallest PERCEIVED slight and you literally cannot tell a lousy performer to improve, even in the most diplomatic way. All they want is constant praise and the firm enables it. All of this is driven by the firm’s desire for a cheap talent pipeline, not any sort of merit. White men still run the roost and will respond very harshly if you question them in ANY way.

1.0
Mar 18, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Values and culture, although not always adhered to

Cons

Lack of support from upper management with hostile offices and employees, blind eye turned to revenue generating employees behavior

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