Flexible Employer with Sociable policies - Customer Service Associate Lauren Ralph Daggett Partners Employee Review

Good benefits Decent pay Small office allows you to feel close to management and not just like a gear in the machine. Get to learn much about the business.

Treated rather poorly despite providing much labor - firm head lost his cool at me for relatively small mishaps In many ways the company is quite dated. For instance, checks are written by hand by the accountant, and in a manner more direct to my capacity, there is much more paper record (and thus copious filing work to be done) and no use of cloud services - feels like I'm working in the 80s schedule is not very linear - have been called in unexpectedly on weekends without consideration for my dreadful commute to the city. Very awkward requests. An executive asked me to not list my role there on resumes or linkedin or other public resumes and to use an alibis that they can confirm for references...shady much? Office is inside another office of an investment group - no windows. Very dusty atmosphere.

these blokes are not afraid to pay some serious quid Landed the job by running into a director at a pub. I was then at a hard time in my life but brought a strong mind and was given a chance. Paid off both ways but wasn't treated the best They taught me finance from the bottom up as I had merely been an anthropology major in uni. Learned how to create models and assess companies Took what I learned there and recently landed a gig someone like me would never have at a respectable bank in the Wharf.

I ended up doing much of the grunt work for them (it's a small operation). The firm hardly believed in computers to simplify things so they had me do many things outside of modeling through paper records and I was essentially one of 3 "slaves" as the execs liked to call us with not much humor to the tone. Perhaps commensurate with the pay but generally excessive, the execs demanded absolute focus at all times and punishment was harsh. A poor intern in his third year of a good uni with great prospects was sacked for playing solitaire! If there was nothing to do because all our analysis for the day was done, we'd be expected to read the Financial Times (in print, not on our terminals) and if you had already read that day's issue then no problem - there is a rich physical archive of past issues for you to "backtest your ideas"!