Great Corporate Culture and Excellent Client Service - Senior Vice President Northern Trust Employee Review

4.0
Oct 22, 2021
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Pros

This is a company that strongly encourages its employees to always put clients first. They sell, but their approach to sales is to educate their clients and prospects as much as possible about their services so that the clients can truly make an informed decision about the services they may want or need.

Cons

Salaries and bonuses tend to be a lot lower than those of our competitors, which is unfortunate. Also, while Northern Trust has been making great strides toward adapting and changing with the times, the pace of change can sometimes be painfully slow and the internal decision-making process can be incredibly time-consuming and overly bureaucratic.

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Cons

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2.0
Apr 21, 2026
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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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