Dimensional Fund Advisors reviews

Dysfunctional senior management. Complete lack of accountability my senior management. Staff is routinely "thrown under the bus" for situations and decisions that are completely out of their control. Politics are a major issue between management & staff, departments and offices. Politics permeates the culture while management is oblivious to its existence. HR is utterly ineffective in dealing with the organization's issues. Staff's only course of action is to resign. Real talent, insight and years of direct experience are not appreciated. It will get your hired but counts for nothing afterwards. No one is willing to "rock the boat" in order to fix a blatant issue with another senior manager. It can be a challenge to work with highly educated individuals who know much about a narrow field but behave as though they know all about everything, including how best to do your job. It's common fault among PhD's.

A lot of "new" MBA's that say they are all about efficient markets only because if they don't they will probably be fired. Not open to ideas that the investment world is looking at. So it leaves you specialized to the point where nobody else cares how you view the world through a DFA investment microscope. Leaves you with little transferable skills because of the specialized nature of the firm. If you can stay and somehow find a niche then awesome, but like most people who leave you will find yourself exactly where you started with few skills added. In house processes exist and nobody wants to change them because they work. However, current employees don't even know what they really do because they didn't write the poorly constructed code in VB6. It is really a shame to see the new CEO incorporate all these performance reviews and micro-manage departments. I guess he should just eliminate all VPs in general and just micro-manage all departments.