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Nucleus Financial Services

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Lost its values somewhere along the way - Investment Operations Nucleus Financial Services Employee Review

2.0
9 Sept 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Social Events are numerous and varied. Some very knowledgeable and motivated people in the business.

Cons

Management promotions based on who you know as opposed to knowledge/fit. Lack transparancy around salary and benchmarking. Belief that 'culture' is a substitute for below industry average salaries. 'Values' are not used in daily activities and sadly just merely buzz words used to paper over the ever more evident cracks. Small company values have been lost and it is now similar to any other big life company with very little autonomy, trust or respect given to its employee's. HR sadly represent none of the companies values and instead aggresively target certain employees whom they dislike despite line managers attempts to stop. Many knowledgeable and experienced team members have left over the last two years due to the change in atmosphere and culture

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Nucleus Financial Services Response
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Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed review. I'm pretty sad to read some of your thoughts about what we can do better and I'm sorry you feel this way. Since you are still working with us I am sure we can talk about what we can do about what is going on for you and how we can make it better. I'd love the opportunity to discuss this together but if you don't feel comfortable then I'd encourage you to speak to David who I know will be happy to spend the time with you. Thanks, Kirsty

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