Pros
- Culture of collaboration throughout the firm - not a Wall Street vibe: people often have been in the firm for a while and have a positive attitude towards new ideas. - Engineering mindset - empowering engineering teams to make technical decisions, leveraging a lot of open source tools, cloud first approach - Lot of opportunities for impact - big focus on leveraging tech to accelerate growth and differentiate from other firms (as opposed to just running some vendor products): exciting projects to leverage data science, modernize the user experience, distributed big data problems, etc... - Lot of opportunities for learning - everyone is dedicating time to learn new skills, attending classes or conferences, and sharing back thought leadership with the office - Opportunities for growth: good balance of senior and junior engineers - provides mentorship to the juniors and opportunities to coach and lead to the senior engineers - NYC management and office is all engineers and data scientists: lot of experience building software - big focus on quality and testing, Agile and transparency.
Cons
- No proactive response of covid crisis - Everyone switched to WFH very quickly and still is but no clear guidance on what "new normal looks like". As opposed to tech companies that have conservative guidelines of July 2021 for return to office for instance, which makes it easier for associates to plan, T Rowe has been following official guidelines and incrementally postponing the return to office. - Still not that much diversity