Friendly, Relaxed Company With Questionable Direction - Trader LPL Financial Employee Review

4.0
Aug 21, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Rather laid back atmosphere, company seems to care about employees with nice perks. New campus in Fort Mill is beautiful. Trade floor is very laid back for a trade floor and management is friendly. PTO is reasonable. Reps approve of the traders here and highly praise our knowledge. Help is always available when needed and training is great. Very accepting company when it comes to diversity which is important to some.

Cons

Company is growing extremely fast and upper management seems to have been flooded by some with questionable leadership abilities. Promotions all the time just because they need positions filled it seems. Company seems very silo'd as in nobody really knows what each other does and everyone blames other departments. Some employees here are just rude and not capable of their phone-based jobs. They make it sound painful they are here. From the trading perspective, getting time off is a huge pain, pay is not near as competitive as other companies, and the system is constantly having issues. A trading position often times feels like an IT job.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jul 7, 2026
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Pros

Great pay and getting OT pay. Awesome team of SMs and RTEs who felt like family and we all wanted to see each other succeed. I was exposed so a lot of situations which strengthened my skill set. Learned the SAFe model and it looks great on resumes. I personally had a great boss, bosses boss, and RTEs.

Cons

Executive leadership is ruining the culture. Many of the amazing Directors, AVPs and RTEs left due to the poor Executive leadership who do NOT know a single thing about Agile principles. Releases are 1x/mo so you have to work one Saturday a month which can sometimes be longer than a normal workday. Release Mgmt team is very difficult to work with and can be very disrespectful. They don’t hide it and it’s accepted. Execs killed remote work.

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