Lots of learning but senior staff wastes all days in meetings so you have to keep your finance books for reference - Senior Financial Analyst Piper Sandler Employee Review

4.0
Feb 3, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to work. Lots of new things to learn. Things change very quickly due to the nature of business. Whatever you did one week back might not be useful anymore for the management so you have to keep learning. Pay and bonuses are competitive with the market.

Cons

Not much support from the management for learning new things. You are on your own. Some of the products are very complex and you need someone to explain it to you. Some of the staff was probably born in Piper Jaffray and will die in Piper Jaffray as they don't have anyother place to go. So they are not very open to new ideas. 70% of the money goes to investment bankers in salaries and bonuses so not much is left for the other groups.

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2.0
Apr 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

It's nearly impossible to get fired. After many years, the IT department has hired a diverse team. Coworkers were intelligent and ethical.

Cons

Unusual that, until after Covid, the IT department was about 95% Caucasian, but now the diversity seems to be due to the ability to lower salaries, and worsen work/life balance. Management will only promote yes-people, or hire from the outside. It's akin to working in IT in 1990s, there is little process or structure. Laptops weren't given to IT until after Covid (yes you read that right), and when they were handed out, they were the used laptops from revenue generating departments that had been upgraded. It was a very chaotic environment.

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