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Russell Investments reviews

3.4

50% would recommend to a friend

(540 total reviews)
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Zach Buchwald

47% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Russell Investments has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 540 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Russell Investments employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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540 reviews
1.0
Aug 29, 2021

Titanic - avoid at all cost

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The employees are quite friendly.

Cons

TA and the feckless executive team have ripped the heart out of this company through relentless, misguided cost cutting measures. The company is now a house of cards. It is a disaster waiting to happen. The CEO, aka Marie Antoinette, is completely out of touch and couldn’t care less about the associates. She is too busy spending the associates’ bonus pool money on her luxury marble office, while she indulges in shameless self-promotion on social media. She is full of shallow platitudes and empty promises while lining her own pocket, not even bothering to drop a few crumbs for the associates. The company has been for sale for the past few years. Meanwhile, associates are leaving in droves, including some senior managers at least the good ones who can get other jobs and aren’t just waiting for a pay day on their equity. The company will be sold at some point. The new owners can’t be worse than TA. That’s not possible. But, why stick around? There are too many other companies that actually value their employees, have stable ownership and have an honest executive management team. Raise your hand and waive good bye. This company is sinking fast.

1.0
Mar 29, 2024

Sinking ship

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Resume exposure when making adjacent moves to investment firms who have not caught on to company failures.

Cons

Nepotistic CEO who cleared house & brought in team of unqualified associates who refuse to say no, while pushing out tenured associates. Outsourced hundreds of roles to Mumbai under the guise of cost saving with minimal plan to train replacements. Toxic management structure in place with zero moves for upward mobility, unless you previously worked directly with upper management at their previous firm.

1.0
Mar 26, 2024

Nepotism and Egoism

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Pros

They laid off the people who were pros, so I'm struggling to find some. If you like RTO they have an inflexible in-office policy that you can enjoy!

Cons

- CEO hires based on who he likes, not on qualifications. Leads to rude, incompetent people in important roles. - CEO throws temper tantrums in front of the whole company. - CEO cares more about his LinkedIn presence than the company and funnels immense resources into making himself look good, but then lays off dozens of people to cost-cut. - Performance is done on a forced bell-curve, so good luck if you're not a manager favorite! - Everyone is miserable, overworked, and underpaid. Except top leadership, but that's the case with all corporate America.

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