Think twice before entering the "career destroyer" mothership - Anonymous employee State Street Employee Review

3.0
Apr 21, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some decent fund accountant professionals and teammates. (Note: teammates, not managers)

Cons

"Career Destroyer" has a tendency to keep and promote the most incompetent managers. Our manager messed up client requests, broken-telephoned client requirements, fat-fingered $2Billion to $20Billion, and still got a RAISED and PROMOTION TO VP. Enough said. My headline says it all, need more explanations?

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Own book runner and strategy. Good work life balance. Good working environment and nice people to work together

Cons

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1.0
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Pros

They offer resources for learning.

Cons

In my previous roles I've never felt burnout but with this one is the first I was feeling crush. I don't think managers take time to structure the tasks on a 8hrs or 10hrs per day. There are a lot of unrealistic expectations, no work-life balance at all. Even if you made the sacrifice to stay late, you will not be done with the work for the day.

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