Smart people here but prepared to work long hours, have no life and be part of the team. - Support Macquarie Group Employee Review

2.0
Dec 6, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Established name, ambitious, bright and driven employees. If you are prepared to put in the hard work, you can be rewarded as there are many highly experienced and knowledgeable people in the company whom you can learn alot from.

Cons

No work life balance, expectations to deliver all the time, work like a dog, some egos. There is an expectation that you will work all the hours of the day and weekends to get things delivered. It's part of normal culture. There are also some really young and ambitious executives who are also just driven by work targets but are poor are people management and mentoring. People are generally just too busy most of the time to have any time for you. You go there into the deep end and they test you to see whether you can sink or swim.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 17, 2026
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Pros

You are safe if you are Australian or a boot licking Manager/Director. Benefits are great. Free breakfast and lunch.

Cons

Extremely toxic culture especially in the Houston office. Trade compliance systems are a complete joke. They have no way of finding out of a trader is actually committing violations because systems are so bad and lag months back. Lots of image shining to hide the true picture behind closed doors. Do not trust the percentage of Bonus/Raise they pitch you. The bonus is 1% not 10-20% Lots of internal politics, local management keeps promoting each other every year while the rest of the hard workers watch. A little bit of a cult vibe when it comes to culture. Organization loves overstepping boundaries between personal and professional life. They want you to live and breathe Macquarie 24/7/365 Promotion process made extremely complicated for everyone EXCEPT the inner clicks. Annual performance reviews involve baiting each other by asking team members to score you.

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