If you’re eager to learn and want to advance your career, skip this company - Senior Consultant Northern Trust Employee Review

1.0
Oct 7, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits, vacation, hard to think of anything else

Cons

If you are looking to work in the Tempe office and are hoping for career advancement, challenging opportunities, learning new skills, and a hard work pays off attitude then hard stop here....run! You will be better off at almost any other company on earth than this one. Asset Management plays favorites if you aren’t from the Chicago office or “one of the original employees” then you could create a way for the company to save millions and still never be looked at as intelligent. Most employees that have been in this organization for years are at best seat warmers. They do nothing but aren’t afraid to intimidate everyone to keep their perceived idea of power. Turnover with brilliant new talent is the norm, no one smart enough to have another job stays longer than a couple of years. The only skill you will learn here is that of 5th grade talent cutting and pasting and manually fixing bad numbers that the computer systems can’t seem to calculate correctly and if you miss a few bad numbers no big deal it goes to clients and no one cares. Save yourself time and search elsewhere.

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5.0
May 29, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great place to work, especially starting your career.

Cons

I have no cons— fabulous people.

2.0
Apr 21, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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