Hightower Advisors reviews

The office culture and environment is geared toward pleasing and servicing advisors and their clients. That means that everyone else who is not an advisor or client suffers. Clients were consistently valued more than my personal health and well being and it was made clear to me that I was disposable. Some of the "managers" at the firm have zero experience managing people, make no effort to learn about how to manage people and are truly awful to the people that they manage. The team that I was on created a "watch your back" culture that was devoid of humanity. I was just a way for them to make money. More broadly, the culture at HighTower is one where advisors thrive and support staff are overworked and under appreciated. Many people on the corporate side do not take accountability for their actions. Corporate benefits are not great. 401k match, paid time off (especially for those beginning new families), etc. and the culture for women is not progressive at all.

I didn't last long here. In my first week some other colleagues advised me that my boss in particular was known to be a jerk - they were correct. They also told me women don't last long here. They were correct. Expectations weren't clear, I was blamed for my boss's mistakes, and I was given little to no work to do. The work was pointless, hours of meetings that could all be reduced to an email. Oh well. Glad I'm out of there.