First Eagle Investments Reviews

My experience within my team and with the related Sr HRBP was quite negative, based on what I personally perceived as unprofessional behavior. My manager told me to focus on adding value and end-to-end automation in our first 1-1 meeting. He also repeated this in a meeting with the entire team. After that, when he was not present, my coworkers repeatedly made comments that I understood to mean I was trying to automate their jobs whenever I worked on streamlining what I viewed as extraordinarily inefficient and outdated processes, especially compared with my experience at larger asset managers. Eventually, I raised this issue to my manager, and I was terminated shortly after. The explanation I was given was that I was not willing to learn the way the team does things and that I was a bad fit (keep in mind my manager in my opinion had no idea how these processes worked). In my opinion, that explanation did not align with the fact that I had been encouraged to focus on automation and adding value. My manager also told my coworkers in an old team group chat that I was asking for more money than they were making during the interview process. In my opinion, that was inappropriate and may have contributed to the unprofessional behavior I experienced from coworkers. In my termination meeting, I was in physical shock and asked about an EAP. The Sr HRBP angrily said, “EAPs are for employees,” which I personally found dismissive and cruel in the circumstances. When I said I couldn't remember my address instead of recognizing that I was in shock, she condescendingly said "you can't remember your address?". Then I asked her to look it up for me because my brain was still in shock and she did so. She also said severance was “not negotiable,” and I felt pressured to sign after I did not sign it immediately. The whole experience with this person felt horrible.