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Guggenheim Partners Reviews

3.5

38% would recommend to a friend

(540 total reviews)

Mark Walter

50% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Guggenheim Partners has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 540 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Guggenheim Partners employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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540 reviews
1.0
30 Dec 2015

Terrible! Run Away, Stay Away!

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Pros

- Pantry with Kind bars and gym for $25 a month in the same building - Extravagant holiday party where you'll see superficial white girls all wearing lou boutins - Establishing a brand...eh

Cons

- Senior management is nonexistent. You'll only see them on the company's website as they're too good to socialize with peasant employees - Lower pay for analysts to VPs but middle management gets paid well (while they lack relevant experience, knowledge, and overall intelligence). Middle management is severely out of touch with the industry outlook. - Extraneous spending on black cars, parties, lunches/meetings, and blackberrys. This is all preventing the advancement of the firms profits and it should be used for higher pay for lower level employees. -HR is A JOKE. They are useless, do not answer emails or returns calls, and assume they know ones daily tasks and responsibilities by knowing buzzwords. They have no clue what they're doing and this company says it promotes innovation but resorts to copying other companies to build itself up. They follow typical HR protocol in hiring students from top 30 universities where students have no clue what they're doing and barely know what Excel is. - Promotes white-male privilege 95% of employees in Securities are unqualified white guys. They will not look at minorities unless you're an Uncle Tom. - Terrible IT -

1.0
12 Jun 2015

Highly Not Recommended to Experienced IT Candidates

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Nice office. Good place to apply for entry level IT position. They look for good communication skills. Technical skills are secondary.

Cons

In recent years, newly established IT culture is based on favoritism focused on promoting well connected individuals with little experience and delivering poorly executed projects. Results are obvious: low morale across all teams, unparalleled level of bureaucracy and politics, disengaged workforce waiting to be replaced by startups top management is building, best talent leaving or marginalized. Department has several managerial oddities such as helpdesk managers running network infrastructure or project managers responsible for security and architecture. Many tactical yet very expensive solutions being deployed such as physical desktops for remote access in the era of the virtualization or over engineered yet underperforming network infrastructure. Highly not recommended to experienced IT candidates interested in worthwhile contributions and career path.

1.0
30 Sept 2014
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Pros

Excellent Internship Programs. Decent Starting Compensation and Benefits but do not expect significant increases or recognition purely based on your experience and work ethics. New well equipped offices. Some recent investments in latest technologies but due to lack of IT leadership many solutions not aligned with long term strategies and overall benefits in some cases are marginal.

Cons

Existing IT culture is not aligned with Guggenheim General Principles. No clear sense of direction from CIO/CTO, CTO and CIO do not collaborate with internal IT teams directly, they rely on small group of non-technical PMs to communicate IT vision and architecture leading to major transparency issues and poorly planned and communicated projects. Frequent and ineffective restructures based on legacy IT practices demotivates staff. Daily outages taking attention away from regular work and projects. Very high stress level for IT staff and middle management trying to adjust to changing priorities and last minute projects. Favoritism is rampant. Top technical talent terminated, marginalized, demoted or quit while inexperienced managers regularly promoted to top positions.

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