Good Solid Company for Financial Services - Senior Analyst LPL Financial Employee Review

3.0
Aug 21, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

If your background is Finance you can gain some valuable experience here and quite possibly advance if the stars align properly. The company is doing quite well for the pandemic. They are well led and make good decisions overall. Very unique business model. The people are nice and there is not a lot of closed doors when reaching out for information across departmental lines. Basically, not a lot of snobbery.

Cons

Tends to be a lot of micromanagement in their culture. Have found they add layers and layers of mgmt they sometimes fundamentally do not need in some areas. Every other person you come in contact with there is an Assistant Vice-President. So some of these managers with direct reports have little to do but hover over you. They need busy work for themselves to prove something so you find yourself conducting work that is irrelevant to anything. Appears to me they could streamline a lot of this. Also since they hire 4 people to change one light bulb sometimes you may find yourself stuck doing some tedious and uninteresting work. Also some classic cases of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing...and all in one department! Again, possibly a result of the lightbulb scenario.

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5.0
Jul 15, 2026
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Pros

Lots of room for growth and development. Work is challenging and exciting especially if you like finance. Co-workers are great, helpful, and make the environment more enjoyable.

Cons

No room for full-time employment. Some opportunities are not offered to contract which is understandable but still sucks.

3.0
Jul 7, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay and getting OT pay. Awesome team of SMs and RTEs who felt like family and we all wanted to see each other succeed. I was exposed so a lot of situations which strengthened my skill set. Learned the SAFe model and it looks great on resumes. I personally had a great boss, bosses boss, and RTEs.

Cons

Executive leadership is ruining the culture. Many of the amazing Directors, AVPs and RTEs left due to the poor Executive leadership who do NOT know a single thing about Agile principles. Releases are 1x/mo so you have to work one Saturday a month which can sometimes be longer than a normal workday. Release Mgmt team is very difficult to work with and can be very disrespectful. They don’t hide it and it’s accepted. Execs killed remote work.

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