Great work/life balance but absolutely no employee comraderie. - Associate to Trust Administrator Northern Trust Employee Review

3.0
Oct 4, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Great time off - about 4 weeks for most employees. Not stressful. Great hours (8:30-5). Great work-life balance. Interesting clientele. Lots of workshops and training online. Strong balance sheet at a time when other banks are struggling. Lots of flecibility to move around the company into different roles.

Cons

The pay is pretty crappy - everyone complains about that. The databases are very complicated and difficult to use. Also, they are always crashing. Some of the division managers are just not good managers. They don't try to bring their team together at all. There is no comraderie at work. People hardly speak to each other which is strange. When I was new, no one attempted to introduce themselves to me, and my manager didn't take me around to introduce me to people. There was no welcome lunch by the team. It's just not that fun to work there.

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Cons

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2.0
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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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