Waste of a year - Fund Accountant State Street Employee Review

1.0
Feb 18, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Meet people. Be in a downtown setting.

Cons

My first year I received 5 vacation days and made 30k. I was a naive post grad, now I'm embarrassed I ever took the job as I am making more than twice that with 3 weeks vaca only 1.5 years later (on top of the fact that the companies awful rep generates a lot of teasing and "thats sucks" when you mention you work there). I was under 4 different managers in the span of one year and was constantly stuck underneath incompetent people with meaningless titles who just got shuffled around all damn day. The morale was pitiful, it was always someones last day at SS (good times drinking though!). Wasnt allowed to take any time off in the beginning of the month. When I did it was 5 days total and I made 30k a year so that sums it up....

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5.0
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Pros

Own book runner and strategy. Good work life balance. Good working environment and nice people to work together

Cons

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2.0
Jun 21, 2026
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Pros

The company has a great severence package. Unfortunately thats a pro because they are laying off workers every 3 months until most of operations are offshore. Decent 401k match and vacation.

Cons

Layoffs, pay is low. Return to office mandate.

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