Northern Trust reviews

3.6

68% would recommend to a friend

(6,453 total reviews)
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Michael OGrady

80% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Northern Trust has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 6,453 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Northern Trust 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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6K reviews
3.0
Apr 23, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Great place for work-life balance seekers where mediocrity is valued. Senior management is full of leaders. If you care about ethics and integrity look nowhere else, it's truly a place where clients are at the center of everything. It's a great global organization with mid-west roots.

Cons

Mediocrity is valued and over achievers are viewed negatively especially viewed as a threat by senior employees. Senior managers try hard to break the silos but middle management breeds politics and can't break silos. Discretionary bonus system throughout the company breeds more politics and less meritocracy and less incentive to drive real results.

2.0
Apr 18, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

-Low expectations set by management -Low risk of job loss (The turnover in the group was so high that by simple attrition, you are left with slow dinosaurs running the biz). -Low stress environment

Cons

-Low wages and horrendous benefits. -Very suspect management (People managing that literally have no idea what is going on within the group) -Cheap boss makes the group split the cost of flowers for the funeral of a colleagues family member, instead of taking that out of the group budget. Who does that?

4.0
Apr 13, 2011

NT Derivatives

Anonymous employee
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Pros

fun people with likable personalities

Cons

some days the job was relentless, thankless, and annoying

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