Does Kestra Financial pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Kestra Financial employees rate their compensation and benefits as 2.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Kestra Financial. This rating has decreased by 13% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Kestra Financial?

24% of Kestra Financial employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Kestra Financial 1.9 out of 5 for work life balance, 1.8 for culture and values and 2.0 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Kestra Financial?

Intern (6) , Concierge Specialist (4) , Account Services Specialist (3) , Advisory Operations Specialist (3) , Concierge (3) , Data Engineer (3) , Financial Advisor (3) , Financial Analyst (3) , Operations (3) , Account Specialist (2) , Associate (2) , Cashier (2) , Client Service Specialist (2) , Compliance (2) , Compliance Analyst (2)

What are the pros of working at Kestra Financial according to real employee reviews?

"The environment and people there were great." ((in 17 reviews)); "Benefits are great" ((in 8 reviews)); "Its in a nice building" ((in 8 reviews)); "Some great coworkers" ((in 6 reviews)); "The IT team was generally impressive," ((in 6 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Kestra Financial according to real employee reviews?

"They use weaponized PIPS to get rid of people they don’t like who don’t fit the toxic culture." ((in 15 reviews)); "Low pay compared to other companies" ((in 13 reviews)); "If it's not your scheduled time to be off, you'd better be on the phone or you'll get multiple messages from upper management asking where you are and reminding you what you should be doing." ((in 11 reviews)); "There is no training really." ((in 8 reviews)); "Senior management tends to shoot from the hip and are oppressive." ((in 5 reviews))

What are the top reviewed Kestra Financial locations?

Austin , Freehold , Saint Louis , Dallas , Killeen , Columbus , San Diego , Westport , Boston

Kestra Financial reviews

2.2

24% would recommend to a friend

(180 total reviews)

James Poer

24% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

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Kestra Financial has an employee rating of 2.2 out of 5 stars, based on 180 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Kestra Financial employee rating is 41% below average for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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180 reviews

2.0

Mar 20, 2018

Not much to recommend here

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Building is nice and fellow staff are friendly and want to do the right thing

Cons

As much as they would like to believe they are building a "new" company, Kestra inherited much of their blame culture from their former parent NFP and have yet to shed that. Sticking your head up here will likely get it chopped off as they are always looking for someone to blame for their woes - and it's NEVER the "leadership" by the way. Management, especially upper tiers, don't recognize the value they have in their employees who all tend to work hard and actually care about what they are doing. Management is also arrogant and unresponsive to suggestions - definitely disengaged from the workers. And while the building is nice and the space is modern and well appointed, I couldn't help but feel like it was more of a factory floor with management looking on from their safe glass cubes - really contributes to the isolation the upper management has from the workers.

1.0

Mar 20, 2018

Scandals At Every Turn

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Kestra has a nice building.

Cons

-INAPPROPRIATE mixing and improper intertwining between management and staff/contractors/employees. -Secretive actions and carrying on unprofessionally behind the scenes (copy rooms, bathrooms and parking garages) and sometimes NOT behind the scenes; right in the open, causing perplexing and troublesome rumors to arise. -Tasteless 'covering up' of inappropriate behavior and upper management having each others "back" when their feet are held to the fire. -Forbidden fraternization allowed for some and not for others. All in all, it is a distasteful, painful, obnoxious and unpalatable place to work.

2.0

Feb 25, 2018

I wouldn't if I were you.

Operations/concierge

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Fair (not great) compensation for the work. Some of the non management types are decent people

Cons

The overbearing, do nothing, bumbling clowns in middle to upper management. Weak benefits. Almost insulting attempts to suck up to the employees (ice cream socials?), parking, insane workload, idiotic quality scoring. Horrific technology platforms, like the absolute worst you have ever seen. I can go on...

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