Lacking In What Should Have Been. - Client Relationship Associate Vanguard Employee Review

1.0
14 June 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 Lotus notes are used which is seriously outdated amongst other technological dinosaurs.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.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
3 June 2026
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Pros

Awesome coworkers for young professionals. Paid licensing for a few months.

Cons

Micromanagement is out of control. Incompetent team leaders who are obsessed with power and metrics. Back to back calls, limited support, and nearly impossible effective communication between departments. Zero time to cultivate culture because you are taking calls every second of the day except for 30min/1hr lunch and two 15 minute breaks. You’re locked into your role for over a year (apprenticeship for around 60 days, then a year after promotion to associate) and your team leaders will not approve internal applications unless you are “eligible”.

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