Lack of Decision Making, Underappreciated and Underpaid - Examiner FINRA Employee Review

1.0
Feb 1, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free water, coffee and tea. Work from home if you're in the right department and your manager allows you, i.e., likes you enough to take advantage of it, otherwise you're out of luck and really should leave; decent benefits (medical, dental and vision and 6% 401k match).

Cons

Underappreciated; underpaid; lack of communication from management; too many levels of decision makers none of whom actually makes any decisions; lots of finger pointing.; very into customer service pleasing, i.e., the big broker dealers who complain to management rather than protecting the investors.

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FINRA Response
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Thank you for your feedback. As part of FINRA360, the review of our processes and business, we are looking at a number of ways to become more effective and efficient at achieving our mission of investor protection and market integrity. In particular, we are in the midst of transforming our Examination and Risk Monitoring program which we believe will help address many of the concerns you mention. We are taking a fresh look at our approach and leveraging feedback from many stakeholders including current and former employees. If you have additional feedback, you can email glassdoor@finra.org.

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