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Edelman Financial Engines

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Great mission, low pay, biased hiring - Tech Employee Edelman Financial Engines Employee Review

2.0
27 May 2015
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Pros

Great mission and business model with huge potential Smart people who want to do the right thing New CEO is no-nonsense business man

Cons

Low pay for Sunnyvale environment -- employees who were there pre-IPO are millionaires and others are scraping by to afford Bay-Area housing, this is feeding low morale among new employees Inconvenient location unless you live in the South Bay Don't bother applying unless you are a Stanford or Ivy League grad (for upper management); or East Indian (for the tech team)

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5.0
5 Jun 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
23 Jun 2026
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Pros

- 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

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