Horrible - Senior Manager Macquarie Group Employee Review

1.0
Aug 12, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Great place for incompetent employees to hide in the machinery. Professional slugs can disappear into a vacuum, where management tries to measure performance by TPS reports, rather than actually knowing the capabilities of their employees. Good place to start, if you can get by the suspicious HR/testing process for interviewing. Good candidates are often sent away.

Cons

Management consists of cut-throat Australian employees looking to make a name for themselves. U.S. employees are considered second-rate. Management fads are ten years behind the times. Use of technology is ten years behind the times. Employees are distrusted and replaceable. Processes matter, people do not. Would not recommend to my worst enemy. Politics are very thick, but mostly behind the scenes. Management not able to distinguish advanced accomplishment from bench-warming. Very frustrating environment. Employee opinions not valued. Looking for new employment...

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Pros

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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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