Jefferies reviews

3.9

66% would recommend to a friend

(1,282 total reviews)
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Richard B. Handler

80% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Jefferies has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,282 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Jefferies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews
2.0
May 27, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Entrepreneurial, flexible, decent work life balance.

Cons

Top-heavy. Need to be a MD to get paid. Not great for junior workers.

4.0
Jan 6, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Small desk so, big exposure to new things. Decent autonomy and freedom of applying strategies. Exposure to large universe of underlying. Great middle office. Fast mgmt decisioning.

Cons

Fewer client flow respect to larger shops. Longer IT developing timing. Small balance sheet. Fewer products to trade and propose to clients. Sales were not free to do their job basically.

5.0
Sep 25, 2014

A good experience

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great company to work for, got to experience a wide variety tasks during my employment and worked with a variety of excellent financial professionals

Cons

Difficult market conditions could put a strain on revenue generation within the team. But it was a situation shared by all.

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