Upper Management is Horrendous - Engineering Senior Manager T. Rowe Price Employee Review

2.0
2 Jul 2022
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Pros

- Total Compensation Package is competitive - Company is strong financially

Cons

Where to start: - Too much talk about culture and social issues. Need to focus on the work. - Revolving door of upper management, almost all hired from outside which limits any upward mobility - Upper management in tech seems to have no clue what is happening at the lower levels. Extreme amounts of duplication of work. - Engineers are more integrators than innovators - Software delivery is made very difficult due to antiquated processes, poor quality of internally developed enterprise systems that must be used and abstracts over many items which makes skills of good software engineers for hire irrelevant - Attrition due to 2 day in office requirement, many people are only staying because they are in the process of getting green cards - Slow to deliver business value because of inconsistent operating models

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
12 Jun 2026
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Pros

Total compensation is competitive, new hires are eager to jump in, and it seems like a company strategy is finally coming together. Things continue to move slowly though because projects from the loudest voice or most tenured associates tend to get prioritized and throw off critical investments into fixing data, process, and tech debt issues to mature our ability to market like it’s 2026 instead of 2016.

Cons

Too many bottlenecks to execution; If you’re seeking to make a meaningful impact, don’t expect it fast. Expect to navigate uncertainty while the company claims to help clients do this for their portfolios instead of helping associates to help clients — This is branded fluff for leadership without clear direction, driving teams to waste too much time and energy in meetings and boring demo decks every month to make being busy look like value by being the loudest voice, which is what you’ll notice many of the most tenured associates do best. Slides might look pretty but AI doesn’t make sense of this noise and clients don’t benefit from all the hours spent in PowerPoint. Unclear ownership leads to internal redundancies or team friction, on top of the inconsistent documentation and fragmented data siloes that are ironically impeding readiness for AI mandates coming from the CEO.

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