Jefferies reviews

3.9

69% would recommend to a friend

(1,281 total reviews)
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Richard B. Handler

83% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Jefferies has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,281 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Jefferies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews
3.0
Sep 28, 2011

Great Experience

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Senior management extremely willing to teach new employees -Clear company structure, no bureaucracy -Good compensation -Honest management -Tuition Reimbursement -

Cons

-Schedule not flexible for entry level positions -Limited growth opportunities -Hard to switch out of a particular group once settled

2.0
Sep 28, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

not many ----pay is at least in line with other firms

Cons

just for everyone's reference in the future ---probably should try to stay away from jefferies for summer internships---at least for trading in fixed income they told us they would be hiring 70 to 80% of the analysts for the program----then even on the last day of the internship they told us they would hire 6 or 7 of the 10 interns---- to make matters worse, not only did they take an extra 3 weeks then they were supposed to to give offer decisions----but they only hired 2 people---- furthermore, the program is extremely unstructured---theres no formal training---and the whole mentality among people there has nothing to do with giving an intern a positions---there's no mentorship program---the EM desk literally told us from the start that they only hire people with experience---the advice is to stay away coming from someone that had offers at multiple BB programs and ended up obv. not getting an offer.... ranting because i just saw a video on their new careers site with their head of FI saying how they are now focusing on building internally via hiring junior people----when that is a bunch of crap (at least for fixed income) extremely unprofessional HR treatment

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