Commonwealth Financial Network reviews

Way too much emphasis on after hours drinking, with the partners being the worst offenders. I'm surprised most of them have not be pulled over for OUI. Over the years my supervisors changed. The last one was a bully. If you complained to her supervisor and she spoke to my supervisor, the repercussions were not pleasant. They required you to be available for extra curricular activities, including weekends and indeed, were rated on your participation in your semi-annual review. The upper management people were under total stress from the CEO. My supervisor was never available for information or advice on a project and most of the time wasn't even aware of what my assignments from other people were. I can't tell you how many times I went to her or those above her with questions on a project and got "I can't talk to you now. I'm too busy", and of course never found the time to answer my questions but yet I was still required to accomplish my task on time and efficiently. There are way too many relatives there. If you have a problem with one of them, good luck. They will always come out ahead.

CEO is a complete a-hole. Demands everyone come to office and then spends tons of resources to pull logs each week of everyones badges to report out. Yet, they are OK to provide exceptions for people who live out of state but will not let people leave MA to work remotely. He is easily the largest security risk in the organization. Meanwhile, I have never met a leadership team with LESS knowledge of technology. Partners CONSISTENTLY make every exception in the book (going against policy and security recommendations) to advisors at the risk of the internal employee, the customer experience, and setting proper security posture and expectations with the community. They tout their culture as being "Anything but Common" and they're close - it's better said as "Anything but Commonwealth" Most of the staff here would NEVER be hired in their roles elsewhere. This place is full of nepotism and "who you know" to get a great executive role. People only stay because they have no other option of being hired anywhere else. Double-standards are really their main operating model.