FINRA Reviews

Cons

If you think that a non-for-profit, self-regulatory organization would be sleepy and slow-paced, this is not for you; performance expectations are set very high and the work can be intense.
The organization is in the midst of very positive changes, and if you're not flexible, adaptable and willing and able to reinvent your work, this is not the place for you.

Cons

There is a noticeable change in the level of internal communication of strategy and direction, with a significant gap between senior management and staff

Cons

Can be too bureaucratic at times

Cons

-The work place can be great or bad depending on your manager/director/VP+
-time entry, you have to track 8 hours every day into a system
-Not a lot of room for uperward mobility, or flexibility to move around (they say you have it but the reality of the situation is that you don't)
-There is not a lot of transparency with employees just the perception
-The evaluations appear to be made up at the last minute and are not helpful
-working hard doesn't get you far, a lot of the times it's based on FAVORITISM
 -Management/director/VP+ don't provide directions and ding you when you get things wrong, very hawkish, very condescending
-Management waits until the last minute to tell you to do something then expect you to jump through hoops to get the work done, it's not necessary and can be avoided but they choose not to do so

Cons

Very poor community
Departments do not communicate properly
Feedback is poorly given

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New management has taken away the "we are one FINRA" environment. Very much gladiator pit fight mentality to getting ahead.

Cons

Decent pay but more could be made at a producing firm

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Depending on your manager your work life can be a breeze or awful. Unfortunately there are less good managers.

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Management is the old guard. Primarily former SEC staffers looking to cash in after a career in government. Management that has been there a long time have their favorite people and the organization is very bureaucratic.

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If you have any self respect, just don’t do it. I’m not sure why some of the other posts are about great work life balance because I was either in the office, on the road or at an airport waiting for a plane. Home was something of a myth.
There is a reason the examiner position is permanently posted online. It’s one BIG revolving door. I could not believe how many examiners had worked there less then a year. They tell you minimal travel in your interviews then you find yourself living on the road not remembering the last hotel you stayed in or what city or town you are in. The pay is no where near where it should be for all the divorces and fractured relationships it causes. If the recruiter tells you about the big year end bonus, what ever numbers he tells you just cut it in half. Honestly, I felt like I was a trucker and being paid like one. Puts lots of stress on any relationships. Senior leadership/directors (in the LA office) is a text book example of individuals being promoted based on tenure and not on skill set or competency.

-If you are a single individual that has cats at home with no other human relationships this might be for you. (Majority of co-workers fit this profile)

-If your life aspirations are to audit financial offices and write a lengthy (And I mean LENGTHY) review and then have it criticed by a manager who will pick it apart then this might be for you.

-If you like having NO Job autonomy this might be for you.

-If you enjoy being micromanaged to a point where you can’t breath with out permission then this might be for you.

-If you like working long hours (50-60 Hour weeks) and not being paid overtime this job might be for you.

The co-workers at FINRA are nice, but the majority of them have almost no personality. I guess that goes with the audit space. I wish I would have read the reviews before I took this job. I will never get those two years back on my life.