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      FINRA

      Engaged Employer

      FINRA reviews

      3.8

      71% would recommend to a friend

      (932 total reviews)
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      Robert W. Cook

      64% approve of CEO

      61% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.3

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.0

      Senior management

      FINRA has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 932 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The FINRA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.6 stars).

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      932 reviews
      4.0
      Jul 4, 2020

      FINRA's Response to current events has exceeded expectations

      Director
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      1. Response to BLM has been energetic from the CEO through management. After years of platitudes from our diversity HR looks like something is being done about racial inequality. 2. Equally, FINRA's care for its employees during the COVID period has been outstanding. The teleworking technology has worked seamlessly. Executive management has been proactive about ensuring staff have time for child care, elder care, grocery shopping; we even had a surprise day off from the CEO! We are in no hurry to return to the office, and it seems there will be many additional WFH options as we phase back. 3. We're getting raises to bring our base salaries in line with our industry. 4. FINRA remains a warm, safe, friendly place. The rearrangement of staff assignments and reporting lines that resulted from an internal reorganization have forced former "frenemies" to learn to work together, and surprise! it's been a great success.

      Cons

      1. 2019-2020 promotions were given based on "who you knew". There remains endemic stubbornness to look outside one's comfort zone. Perhaps as we start putting some meat into our diversity program this will be successfully challenged. 2. Little interest from new management to learn how successful programs worked before tossing them (but that's typical in management changes). 3. Not really a place for an ambitious person 4. Some fear/risk of embracing and promoting diversity improvement opportunities

      3.0
      Jun 20, 2020

      3 out of 5

      Regulatory analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good mission. Good work life balance. Good cafeteria

      Cons

      Archaic technology. Too much red tape. Annoying time tracking system that scrutinizes your every move. Feels like you are under a microscope and being micro managed 24/7. Not much room for career growth. The difference between an analyst and a senior analyst and a principal analyst is tenure. Your skillset will be limited here.

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      FINRA Response
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      Thank you for sharing your thoughts on your experience working at FINRA. We are glad you found the mission inspired you. We are sorry to hear you found our technology to be outdated. We have made big investments in our technology in recent years and we are proud of where we stand today. In fact, just this year we were rated the #1 midsized company to work at in IT.
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