Toxic favoritism and poor management overshadow any positives - Financial Analysts Northern Trust Employee Review

1.0
May 22, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I don’t see any pros

Cons

Too much favouritism, too much politics, no growth opportunities, if you’re not the managers and TL’s favourite you will be cornered, excluded and treated poorly. From Senior Analyst, Technical Coordinator, TLs, Section Manager to Divisional Manager all just protect their favourites no matter what their action are, zero respect from management, the good employees are overloaded with only more work, only if you pretend to work or move around with the TLs or managers you will be recognised, here you don’t need to know your process or work to be supported or promoted only buttering the seniors and pretending to work will get you growth, if you are a hardworking employee you might also be threatened by PIP if you question the managements favourite, your leaves will be questioned and rejected even if you have applied it months ago and you will never get any leaves even if you have prior commitments or sudden injuries, but the favourites can ask for any amount leaves, they will never be questioned how many days they have taken leaves or attended the office days. Even the Hrs and employee relations will support the wrongdoings and won’t take any action or update as to what actions are being taken. Despite the companies code of not tolerating poor behaviour you will still see that reflecting from their favourite employees, your loyalty will be taken for granted and efforts will always be ignored, would never recommend anyone to join Northern Trust.You will be discriminated multiple times if you are a new joiner and still the management will give a blind eye to that.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Nice people and a good environment. Benefits are good and the work is interesting. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate NT as a 7. But, it’s typical big corporate crap that hands out 2% raises and minimum bonuses during a good year yet spends $360 million this past quarter buying their stock back.

Cons

Constant reminders to do more with less and cut costs and belt tightening while the execs line their pockets and you maybe get a 2% raise. I could see such actions if the firm was doing bad financially, but they aren’t. Record this and record that for many quarters now. And they walk around patting each other on the back like they all did such a great job when in reality, the markets are up so the value of the assets we manage are up. I’m wondering what sort of actions will happen when the market goes south for several quarters. Oh. And the constant state of surveillance here is BS. Tracking to make sure you are here 3 days a week. Keyboard / mouse / PC tracking systems receding your activity. It’s like a 21st century high tech sweatshop in some ways.

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