Hightower Advisors reviews

Literally everything else. 1. Management is so deeply disconnected from their teams they think tossing a happy hour on the calendar is equivalent to year-round support and proper compensation and work-life balance. That's basically what your happiness is worth to them, an afternoon offsite with no purpose that they aren't even personally paying for, once or twice a year. Take that money and get me up to a median base salary instead. 2. Management would rather hire someone Director level and above for you to train rather than actually finding out what your job is and giving you someone on the ground level to help take some of your load of. Less support, more work. Bonus points if that person quits within 6 months and you get to do it again. 3. Speaking of your job, it's taken a decade for job descriptions to even be determined as necessary. AKA if something needs to get done, you're just going to handle it. Forever. 4. Once you're handling all these jobs (lots of one-offs) you can never take a sick day or a vacation because you're the only person at the company aware of it/aware of how to do it since there is no cross-training happening. Not even your manager knows how to handle your daily tasks, so if you're out of the office you have to handle it all if/when you come back. 5. Despite all this responsibility (generally much more than your pay grade should allow) your manager likely doesn't find you capable of growing into a better role. There are managers who have taken zero time to learn about your daily responsibility, yet make the judgement that you're not working as hard/well as you need to be to excel. The irony is, of course, that you wouldn't know how to because you're working 10 hour days and you have absolutely no goals or parameters for excelling even if you had time to.

-Turnover and talent attrition at all levels is truly staggering, and it seems that there is no recognition or action taken to recognize the habitual patterns and try to curb the problem. There are departments that with regularity for years and years now can’t retain team members for longer than 6-12 months and where quite frequently people have just quit the department and left. -Plenty of fancy titles to go around in corporate segments, just about everyone has a “Head of ________” but no work or results of practical value to show for it, this also creates siloes where groups and people don’t work cohesively as they all try to work on their own “plot of land” rather than with one another for broader team or organizational goals & strategy. -Seems that very little attention or evaluation has been given to ensuring that HighTower has the right people with the right skills and experience for roles at the company, at all level top and mid-level in particular. -Groups don’t work well together, trust is low, collaboration is poor, siloes and fiefdoms have ruled for quite some time. This is the first company I have ever worked at where quite literally nobody will share their calendars with one another so that you can have an awareness of what your colleagues have going on any given day/time. -Disjointed, disorganized, confused mess of a firm, hasn't decided what kind of organization it wants to be with any degree of discipline. It is constantly reorganizing its departments and causing confusion and chaos it has no vision or clear set of priorities.