FINRA reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(931 total reviews)
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Robert W. Cook

64% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

FINRA has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 931 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The FINRA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.6 stars).

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931 reviews
1.0
Feb 25, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

super salary, obnoxiously rich benefits (I can probably retire at age 50), no one watches what you do and you can easily disappear into the woodwork--the checks still get direct deposited into my checking account!!

Cons

Where to start... bloated, inefficient management. Backstabbing galore. Eveyone is out to throw each other under the bus, especially in my department. Many people pad their expense accounts in my department, and no one is the wiser. Makes you wonder how sharp we are as a regulator. The general public simply would not believe some of the backwards interpersonal relationships senior management has here with each other. To make matters worse, in Rockville, there are snakes in the pond behind the building, and they slither around the employees who go out at lunch for exercise. Such a metaphor for what goes on inside the building.

1.0
Feb 21, 2013

Awful - you don't want to work here.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I sadly cannot think of one positive aspect to employment here.

Cons

Bureaucratic nightmare, no opportunity for advancement.

3.0
Mar 10, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

An ok place to work if you're married with kids and need work/life balance. Low stress most of the time. Overall package is good. On both the market reg and member reg side, legal and financial are treated well.

Cons

If you enjoy working in technology, you will not enjoy working there. The tech side is not shown any respect. Most of your coworkers will be H1Bs who are treated like livestock. Turnover is high. Morale is low. I can not recall a single time someone in tech was asked for an opinion by management. New policies and technologies are introduced without buy-in from the support people by people who have little to no understanding of the technology or what it is used for. Some departments grow even when the workload stays the same. Additional employees are used to push paper around, slowing down other departments. There is a lot of political infighting between departments. Management added two layers of bureaucracy in my time there. Most employees must fill out two timesheets each week, some fill out three!

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