Vanguard reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(6,305 total reviews)

Salim Ramji

76% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Vanguard has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 6,305 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Vanguard 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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6K reviews
3.0
Jul 2, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

good working culture and nice colleagues

Cons

not much career progression and further development

1.0
Jul 1, 2025

Not great

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work life balance is a plus

Cons

No upward mobility. If you don’t play the corporate culture, you’ll get phased out

3.0
Jul 1, 2025

Mixed Experience - Decent Pay, Lots of Micromanagement

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

•Pay & Benefits: the base salary is very competitive, and employees are eligible for both year-end bonus and a mid-year Partnership bonus •Leadership: a number of good role models in the leadership ranks - humble, honest and approachable Principals/Senior Managers

Cons

•Group-think: This will be very dependent on the team you’re in, but in my experience, there is a pervasive group-think mentality and a tendency to rally around popular team members at the expense of hearing views across the board. This stifles innovation & progress and promotes the status quo. •Silos: a lot of people tend to have a “that’s not my job attitude” which hinders cross-functional collaboration and results in organizational knowledge gaps. Going above and beyond is not always rewarded, so many of us are asked to just “color inside of the lines” •Micromanagement: this will likely vary depending based on your seniority, but I found the constant micromanagement quite frustrating in my role, with my manager’s rigid expectations on how things should be done with no room for deviation for a given workflow (“my way or the highway” thinking). This was presented to me as well-meaning feedback, but turned out to be an endless stream of criticism and negative remarks.

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