Great benefits and flexibility but the senior managers are awful - Senior Business Development Executive Freshfields Employee Review

2.0
Nov 25, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits and good investment and training on AI

Cons

No career progression opportunities unless you’re super tight with the management. People who have been promoted are awful team players. Senior managers are rubbish at delegation and don’t know how to develop people. Everyone talks on teams rather than seeing each other in person. There’s been one social within my 2 years where I had to pay and contribute towards it.

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Conveniently located in New York City.

Cons

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