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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
Aug 14, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Wonderful facility, good compensation. Great for financial types.

Cons

This company can't keep IT staff. The turnover rate in IT is beyond bad. The infrastructure team has about 30 positions and over 50% of them have quit in the past 12 months. Any project IT tries to do is over complicated and the individual contributors can't do their job because management makes all the decisions. Usually very poor ones at that. There are many things wrong with the IT department. Here's just a few: 1. Poor leadership 2. Too many managers 3. Wrong organizational structure 4. Low moral 5. Poor vision 6. Poor planning

2.0
Aug 13, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits package and awesome rank and file employees. Great fringe benefits only because the morale within the firm is extremely low. The firm's extracurricular activities are needed in order to retain what top talent they have left.

Cons

Management, management, management. As with any newly hired I.T. VP, first thing they want to do is clean house of all the old timers and bring in their own people. No need to keep and retain employees who actually have the skills and know-how to keep a large global infrastructure running like a well cared for machine. Forget about learning the business, understanding all the system dependencies or identifying department strengths/weaknesses. It’s about an evolution, not a revolution for the I.T. department. Sr. I.T. Manager only hires best friends to fill open positions that will report to him directly. Nepotism is wide spread in I.T. Op's. Work place bullying encouraged to force current staff to resign. There is no longer any room for growth or advancement within I.T. New I.T. hires have identified the problems with I.T. management and resign within a month of being hired. As of this posting the I.T. department has a 46% attrition rate. I.T. management has made the work environment so unbearable that employees resign even before securing new employment elsewhere. H.R. does not take employee complaints seriously and dismiss grievances as employee being cynical.

1.0
Aug 6, 2013

Not a good career move

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is a paycheck that comes at a stiff price.

Cons

This company has become toxic. IT management consistently shows its incompetence and unwillingness to address the problems. The environment has become unprofessional . I have seen departments self destruct before but never on this scale. 26 people have left within the past 3 months.

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