Lack of investment in new hires - Senior Analyst Investment Operations Northern Trust Employee Review

1.0
Oct 22, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Nice name on your resume.

Cons

It is hard to be successful at a job you were hired to do when the first two weeks on the job there was no training at all. The two days of training they provide is very poor and basic. If you can't get by on those two days, your manager contacts HR and alerts them they hired the wrong person. IT does a terrible job granting access to the software programs you need to do your job. It took me a month before I was given a phone number and it took a week to get a email address.

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Pros

Good work life balance and strong culture

Cons

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Pros

Nice people and a good environment. Benefits are good and the work is interesting. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate NT as a 7. But, it’s typical big corporate crap that hands out 2% raises and minimum bonuses during a good year yet spends $360 million this past quarter buying their stock back.

Cons

Constant reminders to do more with less and cut costs and belt tightening while the execs line their pockets and you maybe get a 2% raise. I could see such actions if the firm was doing bad financially, but they aren’t. Record this and record that for many quarters now. And they walk around patting each other on the back like they all did such a great job when in reality, the markets are up so the value of the assets we manage are up. I’m wondering what sort of actions will happen when the market goes south for several quarters. Oh. And the constant state of surveillance here is BS. Tracking to make sure you are here 3 days a week. Keyboard / mouse / PC tracking systems receding your activity. It’s like a 21st century high tech sweatshop in some ways.

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