The truth - Anonymous employee Vanguard Employee Review

1.0
14 Jan 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

PTO is great, you will make life long friends, nice gym, beautiful safe campus

Cons

The company really went down hill the last few years. From the benefits, partnership cuts and they are somehow spun in a way that they are all good. No one believes it of course. Morale took a major hit when they changed salaried employees to hourly under a law that hadn't even passed yet. The biggest joke was the inability for tenured smart employees not able to move out of roles. It always went to younger employees coming basically right out of college. Your time with the company and loyalty mean nothing. The creation of the "chief of staff" role is also a joke. So department heads now have a administrative assistant and a "chief of staff" which the admins used to be able to handle. The other side of the coin to the friends you find are senior managers that can be so rude. Will not even speak to you if you say hello. You are not at their level and don't you forget it.

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Cons

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Cons

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