Eh - Consultant Northern Trust Employee Review

3.0
Jul 16, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Northern Trust has some flexible work options. For certain employees. And depending on who your manager is and how much that person likes you. It's a stable place to work, but Rick Waddell was pretty fast to lay off employees, even before we had one bad quarter. Northern keeps shipping more and more jobs to Bangalore, India, where the workers are paid low wages. But, you get what you pay for. The quality of work coming out of the Bangalore ops centers is subpar, and I can see it harming the integrity of the company.

Cons

There is a serious issue with disrespect towards junior employees. They honestly believe it takes 8-10 years to "prove" yourself and that before you've reached that level of seniority, you're an idiot that doesn't know anything. It's no way to run the company, not in this economic environment when people have many different jobs throughout their lives. Northern keeps shipping more and more jobs to Bangalore, India, where the workers are paid low wages. But, you get what you pay for. The quality of work coming out of the Bangalore ops centers is sub par, and I can see it harming the integrity of the company.

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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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