Vanguard reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(6,301 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 6,301 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
Jun 14, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some great co-workers. Good Training as far as it went. Good Benefits outside of salary. Some good tools to work with.

Cons

Management needs to spend more time actually managing and less time goofing off on their ipods, cell-phones, web-surfing etc. Escalated calls were to be transferred to a certain line for assistance where there would be a manager availible to assist and they were never availible and when you tracked someone down on the floor they did not want to be bothered as they were busy with one of the aforementioned items. In any other workplace I have worked in that was one of managements roles. For a company that touts itself as a leading company technology is seriously lacking. Lotus notes are used which is seriously outdated amongst other technological dinosaurs. Training is lacking in the fact that what you are taught is not indepth enough for some of the products question which can get very complicated and technical at times. It is a call-center atmosphere that is pretty much run as a military operation with breaktimes, lunches etc. closely monitored sometimes to the point of ludcriousness.

3.0
Jun 12, 2011

Relationship Manager review

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very stable organization with opportunity for growth.

Cons

Needs a change in senior management, old boys network prominent and lack of diversity in senior leadership roles.

1.0
May 26, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are good nothing extra ordinary. Most of the employer's are cutting back on it. Good starting place for fresh graduate. If you want to advance within it will take long long time. Flexibility is there only for people starting grade level D and above. (Exampt).

Cons

Flexibility for grade level A,B, & C is horrible. Too many unnecessary monitoring matrix, especially in retail processing. (for example if you are working on a complex client request which may take long time to process then you are being penalized. The processing rate per hour is so outdated. They expect you to do minimum 10 to 15 items per hour regardless of complexity. The Aspect, one of the worst time monitoring tool used in retail processing. if you have to go to restroom, time must be approved before taking a break. Very unfriendly management staff. The morale in this area is probably the lowest of the entire company. Advancement from this area to other areas of Vanguard is ZERO. Unless you know someone at the higher level. Most of the jobs are posted internally but hiring department already know who they are going to hire. (Too much politics.)

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