SEI Investments Reviews

Pros

Relaxed, forward-looking workplace, especially for new workers

Cons

Highly diversified makes it difficult to know where opportunities are

Advice to Senior Management

Good business model. would be nice to see where the opportunities are a bit easier.

Pros

Work-life balance, open door policy

Cons

salary way below average, lateral development, incompetent employees/managers, high turnover, no bonuses, no holiday parties, no incentives

Advice to Senior Management

Hire more intelligent graduates

Pros

Flexibility. Relatively speaking, a good work/home balance.

Cons

A large percentage of compensation can be incentive compensation which is good when markets cooperate. Base salaries are moderate at best.

Advice to Senior Management

Balance salary structure (base vs. incentive compensation)

Pros

Flexible, laidback, easy, comfortable work and life balance

Cons

If you are ok with being mediocre and having a job but no career path. Can get caught up there and 10 years passes with no advancement or money

Pros

Challenging work, interesting people and good benefits, with opportunities for advancement. People are rewarded based on contributions, not politics.

Most of the projects are well-defined and client-driven. The company is also very stable, and is a known presence in the financial services industry.

Cons

It can be hard to move from a technical role to a business leadership position.

Advice to Senior Management

Talk to the troops more about the firm's strategy.

Pros

- Get lots of responsibility and autonomy
- Good benefits
- Great office environment
- Opportunities to advance
- Reasonable work hours

Cons

- Disorganized
- Salespeople rule the roost
- Focused on cost cutting following the financial downturn
- Lack of follow-through with corporate initiatives

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to focus on building long-term solutions for clients, get out of the mutual fund processing business, annoint a successor to Al.

Pros

Hard work, great working environment, fast-paced (in some business units), good benefits including on-site backup daycare, fitness center, cafe, cafeteria, running trail, and others.

Cons

Decision making is collective and distributed instead of top-down which leads to slow progress in some areas.

Pros

Great benefits, great training ground for people out of the military -- The culture takes some getting used to

Cons

They have their model and it works for them...not alot of "out-of-the-box" thnking encouraged there.

Advice to Senior Management

everyone needs to feel like they can be heard without fearing the worse

Pros

Onsite Gym, open workplace, positive atmosphere, managment will for the most part listen to analyst and take their opinions seriously

Cons

Recognition could be better. Great place to start out of college and gain experience but probably not a great place to stay for a career

Advice to Senior Management

If SEI wants to stay competitive and keep good employees, they need to do a better job of compensating them compared to other companies

Pros

Open work environment, friendly people
Great campus
The cafeteria has some pretty good food
The biking and running path along the river is a nice perk.

Cons

Very low salary structure.
It's not a top 100 company to work for anymore for a good reason.
Turnover has been and always will be an issue
Bad behavior is often tolerated