Nuveen reviews

3.9

83% would recommend to a friend

(400 total reviews)
avatar

BIll Huffman

93% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Nuveen has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 400 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Nuveen employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

Reviews by job title

400 reviews
1.0
Feb 21, 2018

Worked in Information Technology for many years

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits were good until Nuveen was sold to TIAA.

Cons

TIAA Management has no respect for anyone working in Chicago. They purchased the company because the need an Investment Company and they wanted the name. After the got what the wanted the systematically began treat all Chicago employees poorly because they don't want them and they would rather have an employee quit than provide a package. Top level of management are rude, ill mannered and barbaric, absolutely no class.

1.0
Jan 31, 2020

horribly run company with decent people

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you want to show up and just collect a paycheck and go home it is a great place. Good benefits. The people you work with are mostly good people and easy to get along with, but also incompetent, which is a result of decades of mismanagement.

Cons

Not a good place if you care about your career or the purpose of the business. They constantly say customer first, but horrible products and services that are more expensive than the free options. Management is well paid and most of them are just trying to extract as much value out of the company as they can. I've heard numerous VERY senior level execs answer questions with "i dont worry about (xyz industry headwind)...i'll be long gone before that happens." There is a reason why the organization has gotten some bad press. There is zero culture and the town halls are a joke. You will hear a bunch of crap about 'big data' 'AI' 'machine learning'....none of these people even know what this stuff is and have nowhere near the competency to utilize these technologies.

1.0
Oct 21, 2017

vicious cycle of incompetence

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-benefits are decent -work life balance is good -people are nice

Cons

-Nuveen/TIAA management is not focused or clear. TIAA management seems to think they have a strategy for nuveen, but most employees roll their eyes when he speaks as he either doesnt have a clue or is being disingenuous. Management is filled with empire builders...a bunch of gobbling up garbage people and garbage assets. Management takes way too long to make decisions and often makes the wrong one. It seems like nuveen loses most of their good employees, so they are stuck with below average performers. -No management decision is ever made with much thought or analysis. Every time i ask management why they did something they give a response that indicates the decision was made with zero analysis. -The firm has too many sub-scale underperforming funds with massive amounts of costs associated with them. You are better off paying a good person a lot of money than have 3 bad people. Nuveen tends to have a lot of people, but not a lot of performance. The good people leave because there isn't enough budget because of the large numbers of bad people.

Viewing 4 - 6 of 400 Reviews

Glassdoor has 464 Nuveen reviews submitted anonymously by Nuveen employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Nuveen is right for you.