Operations Specialist - Anonymous employee LPL Financial Employee Review

3.0
Apr 27, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

LPL is a great place to start especially right after college. I learned a lot overtime from my colleges and managers. I felt that I was able to polish my young professional career here.

Cons

This is a great place to start but not to end up. Sure you can move up within the company but the compensation is not worth it. You'll find that most of the people working here are very incompetent . When I first started I had to train my manager how to do something (kinda told me right away I wasn't going to stay long).

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