SEI Investments Reviews

Pros

Very good work life balance. Used to have good benefits but since 2010, they've been terrible.

Cons

Terrible pay, no privacy, no promotions.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay top employees or you will lose them. Don't expect talent to stay if you're not willing to promote or give them raises.

Pros

Open work environment is great

Cons

Low salariy structure. Promotions typically come with only a small salary adjustment

Pros

Open work environment, friendly people

Cons

Most jobs are in operations, which is extremely boring and tedious. No set career path.

Advice to Senior Management

Have a more defined way for employees to move up

Pros

Great place to start a career. Atmosphere is calm and laid back.

Cons

Most jobs are in operations. They can can be tedious and boring. Pay at the analyst level is low. Company has a flat structure so defining a career path can be a challange.

Pros

Work-life is well balanced. Management is very approachable, tons of transparency. Open atmosphere with no cubicles. Great cafeteria, gym, people are awesome. Great place to great your feet wet. Tuition reimbursement for most MBA programs.

Cons

Location, the pay is not industry average.

Advice to Senior Management

These guys know what their doing....

Pros

Employees are very friendly. It is a great work environment, unlike any other. There are no cubicles at all. The thought is to be open, about everything.

Cons

It is not very easy to transition to other areas of the company from the Operations Department.
If you are willing to deal with the sub-par salary then this place might be for you.

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to work on giving entry level employees a better chance to "shine" and "excel". Career paths and some sort of direction would go a long way.

Pros

SEI offers a great work - life balance and management has always offered flexibility and new opportunities to me throughout my career.

Cons

SEI can be difficult to navigate because policies and advancement opportunities are often very informal and can differ based on your area.

Advice to Senior Management

Would suggest introducing more formality to some company-wide programs such as annual reviews. Would recommend Incentive Compensation truly have some relation to individual performance and things wthin the control of the individual.

Pros

the people are nice and the food is decent. there is a cafeteria on site and the buildings are pretty neat

Cons

most of senior management are salesmen and are not bright they just like to hear themselves talk and talk at their perpetual meetings

Advice to Senior Management

for younger people this is a good placeto start and learn how meetings are structured and how much a waste of time they are

Pros

Campus, food service, benefits, co-workers, attitudes, enviroment.

Cons

Management structure and transparency, location, pay.

Advice to Senior Management

More appropriate pay across jobs and roles. Better Management transparency on strategy and decisions.

Pros

- Open culture
- Access to mangement
- Ability to control direction of your career
- If you have the initiative and knowledge you can make a real change
- Hard work does eventually pay off
- Tuition reimbursement (although it has now been scaled back)
 - Location, for me at least.

Cons

- Takes time to make decent $
- There are some slackers
- Processing work is just not fun.

Advice to Senior Management

Give middle management flexibilty with bonuses. Not just 5 to 10% but real flexibilty.