Lower reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(684 total reviews)
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Dan Snyder

73% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Lower has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 684 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lower 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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684 reviews
1.0
Aug 16, 2023

Sinking Ship

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are no pros to share

Cons

Over worked, under paid, was asking for promotion for 2+ years and kept getting the run around by different managers

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Lower Response
2y
We understand that our buzzing work environment is not best suited for everyone. Our core values are very important to our company, and demonstrating our values is one of the criteria evaluated during our hiring and promotion decisions. Our expectations and goals are set up front when an individual starts with our company, and they are discussed and re-evaluated each year during our annual review sessions so that all employees know what is expected. These annual reviews are also a great time to be able to discuss career projection and how you feel that your manager can best support you in achieving your goals as well as keeping a balanced workload. Nonetheless, we appreciate your time taken to leave a review and we are sorry to hear your experience with Lower is not what you had hoped for.
1.0
Oct 3, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Met some good friends that I will be in touch with for a long time.

Cons

Very poor communication between managers and their employees, confusion and hysteria are the norm at Lower. Rounds and rounds and rounds of mass lay offs, you can do everything right and your job will never be safe. There is always a sense of "walking on egg shells" as a result of the lay offs and this is not something you should live with everyday as a good employee with tenure. Many operations employees are ruthlessly overworked for the amount of money they make. Work-life balance is non-existent. The office is very much immersed in locker room culture. You are only liked and valued by management if you're one of the "bros". Many managers are obviously overwhelmed and not ready to take on the job they have, and will take any opportunity to speak poorly about an inferior behind their back if that person does not conform to the locker room culture. Managers' often leverage their positions of power in order to gain something in their personal lives. That being said, the entire office is a screaming conflict of interest with wildly inappropriate relationships between managers and subordinates that effects the livelihoods of other employees (don't hesitate to read between the lines here). HR is completely under the thumb of upper management. Legitimate concerns and issues fall on deaf ears because facing these issues would be detrimental to management (see previous paragraph). Overall, you have no advocate as a non-manager employee.

1.0
Jun 21, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They will let you go without notice for no reason.

Cons

None, they should be shut down

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Lower Response
3y
Thanks for taking the time to write a review. We value your feedback and would be happy to learn more about the specifics around your time here and how we could have improved it. Please feel free to contact me directly at bbettinger@lower.com, HR at hr@lower.com or anonymously at www.lighthouse-services.com/goLower or 443-294-4880. Best of luck in your career!
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