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Edelman Financial Engines

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Do not work here - Anonymous employee Edelman Financial Engines Employee Review

2.0
20 Mar 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nice building; GREAT PEOPLE (for the most part); flexible work hours; benefits on par with other small tech cos. Great mission and service to the working class at large.

Cons

It's kind of a hybrid fin tech/non-prof culture which could be one of the problems. The biggest red flag is leadership: there isn't any. From product to HR to the CEO himself, leadership is seriously lacking. Too many at the top have been with co since inception - they don't know how to truly build and scale a company. The culture which used to be good I hear, is dead. FE just bought another company and the merging of the two is rocky at best. Seriously, do not work here. I recommend it to no one.

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Cons

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Pros

- Great team from department head down - Collaboration is encouraged - Self-starter culture with good room for side projects - "See something, say something" approach allows questioning methodology without a feeling of personal attacks or "dumb questions" and enables team members to support each other in a safe environment - Work from home

Cons

- Executive leadership does not know what they want - Consistent turnover in C-Suite leads to departments acting like small internal companies rather than part of a larger system - Limited permission access for team members means that any absence or time-off can lead to a backlog of deployments

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