T. Rowe Price reviews

1. The work is so monotonous it will drive you to insanity. 2. Management is unclear, manipulative and extremely hypocritical. Example: we were told we would be licensed during the interview process after hitting the floor. Once we went live we were told licensing would be provided to those interested and it became this very ambiguous date. Finally they make an announcement that no one would be licensed. Huge waste of time. 3. OVERTIME. This is guaranteed every day. 4. Management and advancement is a mystery. It’s not based on competence, intelligence…. Ambition. The combined personalities of everyone you hated in high school are managers here. 5. We were told we could move out of wise after 1 year of service. Soon completing my 1 year and sending out my applications they sold wise and barred all lateral movement in the company… essentially wasting everyone’s time who had ambitions past wise and forced them to go to FIS.

The biggest surprise upon starting at TRP was how backward and awful the vast majority of their systems are. Instead of having a couple of systems that are fully integrated, every minor task is an exercise in trying to combine information from four separate systems that do not talk with one another. You will also spend at least 30% of your day trying to open the various MFA systems because they seem to make the conscious decision on a minute by minute basis whether or not they are going to work. There seems to be no interest in getting any system to work consistently. While some departments actually do have modern systems like Salesforce.com, even those departments are underutilizing aspects of the system that are actually included in what they already own. In my experience, most companies who preach Lean or Six Sigma methodologies are more interested in talking about process improvement than in actually improving processes and TRP is no different.