Bailing Buckets from a Slowly Sinking Ship - Anonymous employee Nasdaq Employee Review

3.0
Mar 14, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great location - view of the harbour and opera house. Good facilities like a pool table and ping pong table Still retains some of the great things about its former startup feel with some great gems amongst the employees (unfortunately most are bailing out) Global company which opens up opportunities to travel/move for select positions/employees (mainly London/New York but also offices in Hong Kong/Bangladesh/Manilla) Good health insurance package.

Cons

Since the takeover from New York, previous social events and great environment have become all too politicised as senior management seems to struggle for more power, while structure starts to spread gap between senior management and the regular employee. A slowly sinking ship at the moment, anyone with any good experience/skill sets is jumping ship quick, while everyone left try and get the water out of the ship. Huge turnover rate of anyone with skill. Very political promotion structure. Management doesn't do well with struggling employees, people severely underperforming seem to not be correctly dealt with. As another review states once you get a job you're most likely to keep it which is great for those who want job security, but it means the people you're working with aren't scared of bad performance and due to the poor promotional procedures they won't bother to work on it. It causes a lot of averagely made ad-hoc solutions as no-one is willing to take the extra step to fix processes and issues. Say they pay for performance yet pay rises are like getting blood from a stone. General consensus internally is that compensation is low despite the workloads and the somewhat false reputation that NASDAQ pays well. Pay rises come few and far between so ensure your start pay is high enough to start with. Some mid management are clearly only in positions due to being staying with the company for a long time, but are lacking any actual management skills and some are still less skilled than employees in their team.

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