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Dimensional Fund Advisors

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Dimensional Fund Advisors reviews

3.8

81% would recommend to a friend

(456 total reviews)

Dave Butler and Gerard O.Reilly

86% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

Dimensional Fund Advisors has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 456 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Dimensional Fund Advisors 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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456 reviews
1.0
Oct 24, 2013

Not a Healthy Place to Work

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Pros

Dimensional is financially sound and is not afraid of spending money on Technology (hardware/software). This provided a nice opportunity to learn and keep the IT skillset current. The rank and file are smart and great to work with. The money was pretty good, but not enough to compensate for the lousy work environment.

Cons

IT Management is a dysfunctional mess. Poor work life, balance. I completely understand that the nature of working on an IT operations team requires putting in a significant amount of after-hours work, but there is often consideration given for that effort. That no longer exists in DFA IT. Despite losing a large number of long term, dedicated, smart and talented employees, the HR department has done little to improve the situation. Despite the company’s continued, long term financial success, the company continues to invent new ways to reduce the quality of the benefits, charge more for them. Finally, there are limited career advancement opportunities, all management and lead positions are filled with buddies of the in place management.

2.0
Aug 26, 2013

Started off great, but culture has really deteriorated lately

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Pros

Great people to work with. Intellectually stimulating colleages

Cons

Management are closed minded and culture has become too perfectionistic

2.0
Aug 19, 2013

Could be a good place to work but…

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Pros

Pros: • Good Salary • Hired a few competent employees and managers that have true enterprise technology experience within the last year in an attempt correct some of the dysfunction. • Training is being provided to all – not just a select few as before. • Those that really care and want to make a difference are given a chance to do so. • The last couple of years has seen the IT department actually do more than vendor management with technicians that actually have access to the equipment, not just call the vendor to fix something.

Cons

The IT Old Guard: (5+ years) • Have Backstabbing down to an art form • Sr, Management Self-promote at peer and employee expense. • Sr. Management have meetings about meetings to plan a meeting and still have trouble making a decisions. • Cannibals- they eat their own; sacrificing former conspirators when caught lying and scheming, • A political viper’s nest where VP titles are given as part of a good old boys club instead actually earned. (VP’s with no employees that project Manages – kind of) • People promoted into roles with no concept of IT or security let alone actual experience in the field. • Positions created for “Sr. Managers” to lead ITSM/ITIL projects with no ITIL certifications or even experience ( can you say hook-up) • More time spent trying to blame others than spent fixing the issue. • No accountability for those in the Old Guard • No work life balance for the competent because the failures of others are shifted onto the backs of those who deliver. team does the majority of the work, while the engineering team not so much. There are valid points in a few of the reviews but mixed with misinformation. The infrastructure engineering team has had everyone quite, mainly because of bad management but also because people were no longer being praised for throwing on the cape to fix something they had broken. There is often confusion about the Operations and Engineering because the Operations team does the majority of the work, while the engineering team, well, no one really knows what they do, when the two remaining come to work There continues to be talk of an enterprise environment with no true concept of what an enterprise entails. New IT Managers and employees showing strain of long hours and constant political battles. Employees that have been with the company for years say things are 10X better than 2-3 years ago, which makes my stomach turn to even contemplate a place so bad.

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