State Government but without the frills - Anonymous employee T. Rowe Price Employee Review

1.0
Mar 21, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Plenty of nice hard working people in the production roles. You can depend on the people you work with, because if they couldn't produce they would have been forced out a long time ago. Free Folgers in the break room.

Cons

Way too many layers of management. Limited people in production roles with supervisors, managers, business unit heads over them contributing little. Spends millions on consultants that provide no value, only suggestions for the future initiatives that never happen. Limited room for growth, very conservative with adding new positions. Very big on watered down job descriptions that immediately expand once you start, though which are never updated to reflect the new work. You can work your way from the bottom to the middle, but any position above that they are going to look to hire from the outside. If you are coming from the outside, look to make 20-30% more then your peers in the same roles (good for you though).

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