Associate - Associate Harding Loevner Employee Review

3.0
Feb 24, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Laid back culture, everyone is very kind and friendly. Everyone is also very smart (50% literally seem to have CFAs) and serious about life. An eclectic group of multinational employees, which make the atmosphere quirky, but interesting. People genuinely want to help you out, and if you really try to make the most of it you can end up learning quite a lot. Good long term compensation...if you stay for 5+ years to experience them. They give you a phone, and some other standard perks, breakfast once a week, etc.

Cons

Pay is not up to par with other firms in the industry looking for the same level talent. Horrible location in suburban NJ. Some people are too serious. Almost everyone, even those 24-28 years old, were married or close to it. I found the older employees to be more relatable in many ways, as most of the younger people at the firm were 20 going on 40 in my book. It made for a rigid environment at times. I saw some serious micro-managing going on. Almost definitely due to the growing pains, of going from 20 employees and $2bb in AUM to 100 and $40 in just a few years. No flexibility in terms of working from home, and no intentions to change that anytime soon. I know people who work for big wall street firms that work from home once-twice a week, the only time you'll do it here is when it's a blizzard outside. I very much so got the sense that certain people competed amongst each other to give off the impression that they were working harder, sucking up to managers, coming in early just to browse the web, or other 'fake' behavior. It never seemed like many people at the firm were friends outside of work, and that's like due to some of the things I mentioned above. Make sure you like the fit before you take a job.

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5.0
Apr 6, 2023
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Nov 2, 2023
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Pros

- Additional compensation - Access to senior management

Cons

- Managers are seemingly never disciplined for mistakes they make, which is certainly not the case with junior employees - Little to no opportunity to move up past a Senior Associate on the Client Management Team - The family-like culture that the firm advertises exists...but not outside of the Investment Team. Particularly in Client Management, it is show up, work through your lunch, and get as much work done in near silence as possible before the end of the day

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