Toxic culture with poor support and management issues - Consultant Northern Trust Employee Review

1.0
27 May 2026
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Pros

Health Insurance Salary... that's about it

Cons

Awful culture top to bottom with pointless middle managers. 0 training or support for new starters with contradictory rules being shared simultaneously. Management consistently moves the goalposts to validate poor reviews and pushing blame on to junior staff. Managers will offer 0 support but then ridicule you in front of other staff despite requesting their support. Very clear boys club in which if you're a favourite you can get away with anything despite incompetence and 0 work effort or knowledge. Latest example was staff being made redundant, despite much poorer performers in their team. Executive that they do not even report into gave the news without advising any of their managers. Staff member was made redundant a month ago and there has been 0 acknowledgement or announcement with management just saying they're not allowed to speak on it.

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5.0
12 Jun 2026
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Pros

Good benefits and a lot of time off

Cons

Hours are not the best in my department

2.0
21 Apr 2026
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Pros

Nice people and a good environment. Benefits are good and the work is interesting. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate NT as a 7. But, it’s typical big corporate crap that hands out 2% raises and minimum bonuses during a good year yet spends $360 million this past quarter buying their stock back.

Cons

Constant reminders to do more with less and cut costs and belt tightening while the execs line their pockets and you maybe get a 2% raise. I could see such actions if the firm was doing bad financially, but they aren’t. Record this and record that for many quarters now. And they walk around patting each other on the back like they all did such a great job when in reality, the markets are up so the value of the assets we manage are up. I’m wondering what sort of actions will happen when the market goes south for several quarters. Oh. And the constant state of surveillance here is BS. Tracking to make sure you are here 3 days a week. Keyboard / mouse / PC tracking systems receding your activity. It’s like a 21st century high tech sweatshop in some ways.

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