Great Place to Start Career - Investment Associate Mercer Employee Review

4.0
Feb 6, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Work with extremely smart people. Ability to learn a lot and take on responsibility if you seek it out. Interesting work and access to meet with top tier investment professionals due to Mercer's size and client base. Ability to work remotely. PTO, personal days, 401k and other benefits were good. Interesting work depending on your team and role.

Cons

Underpaid versus other firms in the industry. Promotions feel like they are based on time spent in role versus actual impact and work done for the Firm. Stretched thin depending on your team. The organization is very top heavy with managers. Very unorganized integrating and setting a direction for the private markets team.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

Work life balance is an issue at times

3.0
Jun 20, 2026
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Pros

-Trustworthy immediate colleagues -Good work/life balance and flexibility

Cons

-Little career pathing within company. Organization is extremely siloed, and cheap as they simply aren't interested in paying for small things to advance one's career like local industry conferences and events such as team holiday dinners that would have minimal impact on the company's bottom line. -Pay not aligned with skills or talent marketplace -One would think a benefits/career consultant would have decent pay and benefits. This is not the case

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