HedgeServ Reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(560 total reviews)

James P. Kelly

69% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

HedgeServ has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 560 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The HedgeServ 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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560 reviews
1.0
3 Mar 2022

Beware fake reviews

Recommend
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Pros

If you sort the reviews by most recent, you'll notice a lot of short, vague, positive reviews. One of them is the same review posted twice. The reviews over the last ten months all rave about things that the reviews dated earlier complain about. I wonder if there's a correlation there.

Cons

A recent review called Hedgeserv a great investment bank to work for. Hedgeserv isn't a bank (investment or otherwise); it's a fund administrator, and if you don't know the difference you don't work in this field. Either the person doesn't know what kind of company they work for or it's a plant review. I wonder which is more likely. Someone else said there were no signs of favoritism. This company thrives on favoritism; if you're on JPK's good list, the world is your oyster (until something goes wrong, which is every day). If you're not, keep an updated resume handy. You'll be fighting for your job every day, and it's a losing battle. This place had a 2.8 star rating not that long ago. Now it's at 4.1 and climbing thanks to these click farm reviews. Trust me, they haven't suddenly gotten infinitely better to work for. They're still closer to a 2.8. Read the reviews yourself, carefully. Be the analytical genius the company claims to always be looking for and make your own decisions.

1.0
7 Jan 2020

Toxic leadership ruins the company and its people

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Salary was good, but not as good as could be found at larger companies or actual hedge funds - Health insurance was amazing, but didn't include Vision - You'll learn a ton about how not to run a business or department - Any time the Chairman goes on vacation - The freedom you'll feel after you leave

Cons

The entire company turns upon the whims of its mercurial Founder/Chairman. He verbally abuses his managers and staff as a matter of course. If not for him, this organization would have already achieved greatness. Do not approach this organization unless you've exhausted all other options for employment. The culture is truly toxic, and everyone who joins is sucked into the mess given time. This toxicity starts from the top, and is reinforced by nepotism and backstabbing based in fear. No long-term strategy survives in this organization. Smart, driven people are paid a lot of money to come here, and many find themselves trapped by their paychecks, their talents wasted. Don't become one of them.

1.0
18 Sept 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The money was the best thing about this job. And I'm only putting that here because there's a requirement for a pro.

Cons

Almost every company is fairly bad at giving their people a proper work/life balance. Hedgeserv takes it to an extreme. Mother just died? That's rough. When are you coming back to work? Wife is sick and needs surgery so you want to take time off? You're fired. No explanation other than "this isn't working out". (These are not an exaggerations, either. This happened.) Management doesn't care about you. They don't hide it. They don't sugarcoat it. They'll tell you flat out they don't care if you've worked fourteen hour days for weeks plus weekends. But they sure will care if you want a comp day or two to cover that. How dare you need time away from work? The positive reviews on here are plants designed to bring up the company's rating because it's been an anchor around bringing new people in. This isn't an exaggeration either. Numerous recruiters highlighted Hedgeserv's Glassdoor rating as a problem for the company because numerous candidates saw it and suddenly declined interviews and offers. Certain individuals have taken it on themselves to make this place seem like less of a trainwreck. But there isn't enough lipstick to put on this particular pig to make it appealing.

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