Good place to work, if only they can figure out how to change - Anonymous employee Edelman Financial Engines Employee Review
4.0
18 Feb 2025
Anonymous employee
Current employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
- flexible work arrangements
- good colleagues
Cons
- brand and unwillingness to change it
- inability to change even when needed / lots of internal warriors for inertia and bureacracy
Edelman Financial Engines Response
11mo
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We’re glad to hear you value our flexible work arrangements and team culture. We also appreciate your perspective on areas where we can improve, and we remain committed to evolving and finding ways to better serve both our employees and clients.
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- Great team from department head down
- Collaboration is encouraged
- Self-starter culture with good room for side projects
- "See something, say something" approach allows questioning methodology without a feeling of personal attacks or "dumb questions" and enables team members to support each other in a safe environment
- Work from home
Cons
- Executive leadership does not know what they want
- Consistent turnover in C-Suite leads to departments acting like small internal companies rather than part of a larger system
- Limited permission access for team members means that any absence or time-off can lead to a backlog of deployments