FINRA Reviews

Pros

FINRA offers opportunities for people in a broad range of professions - data scientists, compliance examiners, enforcement attorneys, other regulators, investor educators, etc. - to grow and develop within their respective areas while doing very meaningful work: helping to protect investors.
Challenging work that is personally and professionally rewarding. Collegial environment where others are happy to share their expertise to help you learn. Competitive compensation and benefits. FINRA is renewing itself with a comprehensive review of its organization and operations, with an eye toward being the most effective and efficient organization it can be. FINRA is fully committed to a diverse workforce and inclusive work environment, offering a number of programs and benefits along these lines. Senior leadership is actively engaged in advancing diversity and inclusion goals.
Overall, an expectation that you have an opportunity to contribute your individual perspective and expertise to the success of the organization, and your ideas and views will be heard.

Advice to Management

Keep reinventing yourself. Change is of course difficult on many levels, but essential to remaining vibrant, relevant and an attractive choice for people who want to make a positive difference in our markets and economy.

Pros

Interesting work, great hours, good benefits, fair pay.

Advice to Management

Keep up the good work.

Pros

Great work life balance, golden ticket on your resume.

Pros

Interesting work and collegiate environment

Advice to Management

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Pros

Good work and life balance

Pros

They downgraded their optional health plans, like most companies these days, but the time off, 401 match, and other benefits are still great. You have to land a permanent position first, however.

Advice to Management

You need to completely reshape your company and you are doing it at the wrong level. Look to your middle managers who cause 90% of the cultural and technical problems. Some mean well, others definitely do not, but they all need retraining at minimum. You can’t force finra into an open office and magically expect people to be happy and things to work like they do at google or a small startup. Square peg, round hole. You have done a poor job of forcing a culture shift.

Pros

Great Food in the Cafeteria

Pros

Great benefits and insurance available

Pros

Nice desks and chairs. Benefits good, salary good to start, then you're held back. Bonuses to the "friends".

Advice to Management

Take a close look at what you're doing. Directors, Managers, Analysts, Lawyers are doing pretty well; they work hard. Once you get past that group, their managers, VP, SVP can't get out of each others way to please their bosses. They change things and then you're back at the drawing board. They waste precious time on Create-a-thons and other useless programs that tend to cost so much money. They are scared when you go outside the organization to see what others are doing in their chosen field. Then there is HR. They are out to protect the company, not the employee. Sad state of affairs. Their Board of Directors need to take a better look at what is really going on. Want the best way to do a survey? Do it by paper. No computer trail, that fools no one anymore. The top is tilting. So sad to watch. Culture and Value is great in Rockville, Md, where the real part of the company is. All other places are a mix of poor planning that is creating a deadly culture to a once proud company.

Pros

Used to be o.k place to work.

Advice to Management

You can't give no raises or 1/2% increases and expect employee engagement to be anything but low and going lower. That's not even a cost of living increase, especially with employees paying a bigger share of insurance. Move on from the bad managers, there are certain ones nobody wants to work for, and just leave instead.