Pros
- London office has fantastic staff and close knit team in many departments - The company has responded well to coronavirus pandemic with great support and communication from the Leadership team - interesting problems to solve and huge client base of diverse organisations to work with - Friendlier hours then other buy side firms I have worked in with more of a focus on getting the job done than time spent sitting at your desk - Distribution team growing and an exiting place to work with good leadership - Great benefits (13% pension match for 3% personal contribution - employee stock programmes - private healthcare and a variety of other things) . Strongest employee benefits package overall in any buy side I have worked for but this does make getting raises or big pay jumps from promotion harder. It’s a trade off that I think still makes this a pro because of how good the overall package is
Cons
- Very US centric firm. Seems all major decisions are made out of Baltimore. This makes sense but can often feel limiting to some of the things we’d like to do in the international offices - Technology infrastructure is creaking quite a bit - Struggle to deliver on large scale global change programmes as accountability is not always there