Northern Trust reviews

3.6

68% would recommend to a friend

(6,451 total reviews)
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Michael OGrady

80% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Northern Trust has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 6,451 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Northern Trust 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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May 22, 2026
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Pros

I don’t see any pros

Cons

Too much favouritism, too much politics, no growth opportunities, if you’re not the managers and TL’s favourite you will be cornered, excluded and treated poorly. From Senior Analyst, Technical Coordinator, TLs, Section Manager to Divisional Manager all just protect their favourites no matter what their action are, zero respect from management, the good employees are overloaded with only more work, only if you pretend to work or move around with the TLs or managers you will be recognised, here you don’t need to know your process or work to be supported or promoted only buttering the seniors and pretending to work will get you growth, if you are a hardworking employee you might also be threatened by PIP if you question the managements favourite, your leaves will be questioned and rejected even if you have applied it months ago and you will never get any leaves even if you have prior commitments or sudden injuries, but the favourites can ask for any amount leaves, they will never be questioned how many days they have taken leaves or attended the office days. Even the Hrs and employee relations will support the wrongdoings and won’t take any action or update as to what actions are being taken. Despite the companies code of not tolerating poor behaviour you will still see that reflecting from their favourite employees, your loyalty will be taken for granted and efforts will always be ignored, would never recommend anyone to join Northern Trust.You will be discriminated multiple times if you are a new joiner and still the management will give a blind eye to that.

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