Vanguard reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(6,306 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 6,306 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
1.0
Oct 4, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- They'll teach you finance, actually this is a Con. - If you're a girl they'll hire you - Flexible schedules - Lots of opportunities for OT, - IF you have a competent team leader(there's about 1 per floor) lots of opportunities to advance your career.

Cons

Since Vanguard doesn't lay people off they accumulate worthless employees who without a doubt have been fired from their previous employer. The board that runs the company are masters of paying their employees less but offering lots of benefits that are all tax breaks on the bottom line for the company. Therefore they can pay their employees less and say their total benefits package is one of the best. They could teach you finance, HA if the trainers knew the difference between live stock and preferred stock. If you don't know anything about finance the trainers appear to have a wreath of knowledge but if you know what the Wall Street Journal is the trainers are inept. The team leaders come from supervisor backgrounds such as, hotel front desk, banquet preparation, Kohls, amature skier, golf pro, gov clerk, and Vanguard accelerated Development program, these VADP kids are all girls psych, poly sci, communication, and ASU laughable BIS degree (2 minors makes a major). Did I mention anyone with a business background nope. Good luck finding a knowledgable TL.

1.0
Jan 25, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They were alwasys on the bandwagon for the lastest book to inspire management and would give the books out for free. Offer courses on anything you want to learn to enhance your skill set.

Cons

Wants everyone to think outside the box yet fails to embrace the new ideas. Cult like enviroment, take assimliation to a whole new level. Managers have been "encouraged" to step down and then forced to work side by side as peers with crew they use to managed. Careers of tenured crew can be derailed based on one bad review regardless of validity of the review.

1.0
Jun 11, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good place to get started, great training, looks good on a resume. You can learn a lot here about the investment industry. You can get your securities licenses on their buck. You can gain valuable skills in various areas that translate to "real-world" worth. It's a great place to make friends.

Cons

The basic deal here is you are used. They sing a song of "work-life balance", but depending on your position, that balance is weighted toward work- as in work is your life. The Peter Principle is alive and well here. Incompetent people are many times rewarded with management titles- and put in charge of talented people whose jobs they barely comprehend. These managers then micro-manage and terrorize their staffs in order to feel "important" and in control. These managers are too afraid to push back at Snr. Management on rules that should not be "one size fits all". Super talented, intelligent people have been lost by this organization by their insistance on shoving square pegs into round holes over and over and over. Interestingly enough, there are a lot of Vanguard veterans that have drunk enough of the kool-aid to remain.

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