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Honest Review - Concierge (Client Service Specialist) Kestra Financial Employee Review

3.0
Jan 31, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very friendly co-workers, building is out of downtown traffic but still close by the heart of Austin, after a year you can move positions within the company to a different department (you have to wait a year so I don’t know if that is a pro or a con), you make around 60k for what is an easy enough job. You get to work from home on Fridays. It is a growing company that is killing it, however, you can invest it is so it kind of doesn’t matter for you.

Cons

There are many cons. The cons definitely outweigh the pros. Let’s start with the treatment on others. For this position you will be located on the 1st floor. Kestra also owns the 4th floor. The 4th floor treats the 1st floor people like this was a real life enactment of “The Platform” (messed up movie). The company will even bring lunch in 2-3 times a week for the upstairs workers but nothing for the 1st floor. Even though Concierge is arguably one of the most important positions for keeping Kestra running, they are treated the worst. Now that that has been established, let’s talk about management. Management is a joke. Most supervisors are promoted based on how long they have been at the company and NOT on how much they know. If you have questions or need help, do not go to them 70% of the time. Management also treats the team like children. Want to take one of your two 15min breaks? Want to take a 30min lunch? Nope. Have to get a hall pass from the teacher. They tell you there are bonuses but they aren’t (they actually got in trouble for this so maybe they aren’t telling candidates that anymore). The training is also awful. There is no training really. You just have to figure it out but at least your co-workers are always there to help.

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5.0
Jul 7, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is a solid place to work if you want to get into tech or wealth management in Austin. They are hiring a lot right now to build out the tech platform that the financial advisors use. You get to see how the wealth management industry works from the inside and work on technology that directly impacts advisors, which gives you good experience. Everyone I work with is professional and handles their business.

Cons

It is financial services, so there is standard corporate red tape and compliance rules you have to deal with.

2.0
Jul 14, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-can be a good environment to move up and take advantage of growth -company is doing well financially and growing pretty quickly -some good leaders that try to compensate for clear company-level faults -being closer to executive level (both pro and a con)

Cons

-HR department is nonexistent and terrible, some of the lower level employees try and compensate for it but the department as a whole is toxic. Never a good sign for a company to have such a bad HR team -Activetrak on computers to track everyone’s activity (both in office and at home) which is being actively monitored by the HR team -culture that spends millions on extravagant advisor experiences and shows off pictures at town halls, but gives home office employees bare minimum and will ostracize them for taking more than one cupcake -a lot of turnover so really hard to accomplish anything

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