Macquarie Group Reviews

Pros

Extremely devoted to employee professional development.

Cons

Recent increase in in-office days.

Pros

Good benefits. Good pay. Opportunity to learn and grow

Cons

Long hours. No downtime at all

Pros

Very focused on employee satisfaction

Cons

Annual salary could be better

Pros

Great firm to work for, except the Philadelphia office has a toxic culture.

Cons

Bad culture at Philly office, other offices were great.

Pros

Genuinely nice people but that’s about it.

Cons

Where to begin. The work/life balance they champion is a lie. As soon as I started, everyone began taking time off because they were so burnt out. You’ll be working 13/14 hour days minimum just to keep putting out the fires. They won’t say it anywhere, but expect weekends as well just to try to get ahead of the next days problems (this includes holidays like thanksgiving and Xmas… not kidding). Zero training, you’re expected to “step up” which is pretty hard to do when you’re never taught their systems. There’s a difference between “stepping up” and being experience enough to know that winging it is a really horrible idea. I watched inexperienced people get written up for things that could’ve been prevented if their manager actually trained correctly. (The entire team let me know this behind the managers back during the first week, which was a realllly bad sign.) They’ve got multiple serious compliance issues that are never addressed even when you bring it up with management, compliance and HR; I’m sure that’ll be in the news someday. Expect not to have access to systems for months and spend a ridiculous amount of time in orientation and company culture meetings instead of actually working. They’ll sell you on promises of new businesses that will never get started and string people along for months, if not years for jobs they’ll never get. The senior manager will come in after you and leave before you which sets a great example for everyone in the department. Every ops department on the street is always understaffed a bit but this is well beyond that and I think the managers think it’s normal to regularly operate with key man risk. In hindsight it’s actually kinda hard to write this stuff because the people are genuinely nice, including the managers. But objectively, it’s just run so poorly that you always feel you’re one minute away from a serious crisis.

Pros

Nice people across multiple teams

Cons

Overworked hours, below average pay, management doesn't provide much support for improvement. Middle managers tend to micro-manage and be territorial.

Pros

Nothing - they lie through their teeth to get you to join with empty promises. Don't believe this company and the people who work here. Pretty impressive how this bank makes headlines for all the wrong reasons - so much truth to the fact that the culture is abusive.

Cons

No work life balance The worst compensation I received Abusive managers, horrible HR/recruiting staff (acting supreme and entitled despite Macquarie not even being a top tier US bank) Lies, lies and more lies - only regret was staying here longer than I should have. A naive (and easily duped) colleague convinced me to but I ended up learning the hard way - never again.

Pros

Flexible and surrounded by smart people

Cons

I did not have any cons

Pros

The culture of diversity, collaboration, and teamwork is phenomenal. You will be given a lot of opportunities to learn, work with others, and do a bunch of different types of engineering. Management is extremely personable and pushes a great holistic culture of self improvement and work life balance.

Cons

Some growing pains as new businesses are acquired and new opportunities are found.

Pros

Willing to provide resources to enhance growth and success

Cons

Small scale to competitors limits growth ability