State Street reviews

3.4

59% would recommend to a friend

(10,484 total reviews)
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Ronald O’Hanley

69% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

State Street has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 10,484 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The State Street 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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3.0
Feb 15, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

The people are reasonably friedly and will make a good attempt to make you feel welcome and help you to adjust to the job.

Cons

Clueless middle management, poor opportunities for promotion, professional development. Compesation levels are on the low side and perks are non existant.

3.0
Feb 10, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, more vacation days than industry Flexibility, work life balance, ability to work from home Plenty of leisure, good hours

Cons

Work is pretty mundane and not challenging, big company, too many people competing for promotions, things boil down to politics and sucking up mangers more than performance. While the pay is good enough for the amount of work, it is less compared to industry, not a place for ambitious types.

1.0
Feb 10, 2011

Slave Street

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent exposure to portfolio / fund industries

Cons

Where to start? Incompetent middle management, I mean it, extremely incompetent management. Zero, absolutely zero communcation. Zero, absoluately zero effective time usage. Zero, absolutely zero feedbacks. Middle management's existence is to justify their existence. Read that again, middle management exist to justify their value. Absolutely horrific treatment to juniors and associate level employees. Middle management are brain dead over-paid zombies. Middle management love to see their worker bees work 70-80 hrs a week. They will leverage their perceived power on you if you don't do as they want. If you have an opinion, keep it to yourself if you still want to come back for another day. I have yet to mention pay, which is chump changes for the work that they expect out of you. With regards to hours, if you complete your task efficiently and effectively, you will be assigned more mundance work. If you dont' complete your task on time, you will be labelled, zero tolerence, no excuses allowed. Middle management doesn't understand the daily grind of the data system that the associates have to deal with; the only excuse they have is: "everyone does it, so should you". That's all they got for a come back? come on, be more creative. Smart employees would not tolerate circus like this, get out while you still have a functional brain.

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