Nasdaq reviews

3.9

77% would recommend to a friend

(1,403 total reviews)
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Adena Friedman

89% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Nasdaq has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,403 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Nasdaq 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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1.0
Sep 2, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Good Medical Benefits. Sometimes they'll waste a ton of money on fancy dinners for you.

Cons

They fire quality staff members to make room for inexperienced college students and teams in India. This is because the company is so poorly run, they are constantly losing money at rapid rates and doing this is the only way to help their quarterly reports look decent. They fail at all their mergers. (Glide, Thomson Reuters) and their staff has become a revolving door. They are all about Quantity over Quality making for a poor office environment. Everyone is hostile, on edge, and will lie to you about being your friend for a year just to use you to get ahead. Pathetic.

1.0
Jan 16, 2018

HR- high turnover and lack of good leadership

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Fantastic brand, benefits and 401K match sets the company apart -Fast paced with constant upgrades to technology and increase in individual responsibilities -Smart and hard working people throughout the company

Cons

-Staggering HR turnover so masterly disguised -Extremely low morale due to disrespectful and unethical behavior internally in HR that continues to go unaddressed due to the fact that HR is untouchable compared to other departments within the organization -You’ll only receive a promotion (or pretend "recognition") if you resign/threaten to resign but are needed for a specific project or during an understaffed time of year -You won’t be able to find one ex/current HR employee that would recommend joining the toxic HR team

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Nasdaq Response
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Thank you for your comments, which we review and take seriously. Nasdaq is fully committed to fostering a respectful and ethical culture; Integrity is one of our Core Values. Senior leadership, Legal, and HR have taken several actions to reinforce our cultural expectations. Handbooks, policies, and Code of Ethics clearly address areas including discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. We deliver monthly Ethics in Action webinars addressing timely topics. We offer a SpeakUp! program to provide an anonymous, confidential way for employees to come forward with questions or issues on any topic. We encourage all employees to raise any concerning issues. Our commitment is to listen and take all issues seriously, professionally and discretely investigate, follow up with employees, and take necessary action when appropriate. Our prohibition against retaliation is strictly enforced and communicated clearly. HR does not run this program and is not exempt from any reported inquiries or concerns.
1.0
Sep 1, 2015

Terrible corporate culture; awful place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The health benefits are as to be expected for a company as large as this. The name Nasdaq on your resume. Reading THIS review and realizing you can get better experience elsewhere. Nothing else.

Cons

Where to begin? NEPOTISM reigns supreme in a place with the worst cut throat corporate atmosphere I've ever experienced. It's all about who you know, they could care less about what you know. You can expect 6 month contract consultants to get better treatment and some sort of cross training, you can also expect them to get the benefit of human decency and be told months in advance when they will be let go. As a full time employee you can expect incompetent managers who backdoor their personal friends in through shipping and internships to be promoted directly to lead positions with zero experience, you can also expect these people to train the new contractors, only to have these contractors held accountable for their lack of proper training. You can expect directors who could care less about their responsibilities, only to focus on what matters to them. You can expect an extreme cut throat team experience, to the point where there are Matchbox buses with the Nasdaq name on them because "throwing someone under the bus" is a daily occurrence (This is true, it is celebrated so much at this company these toy buses do exist). You can expect to show up for work on a Monday, to be instantly let go for weak reasons that don't pan out, that's what happens though when you've just hired your best friends brother (whom you've also hired and made a lead position), and need to make room for another "lead."

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