Standard Life Aberdeen Reviews

Pros

Good Benefits and Package, treated fairly and well respected among peers.

Cons

nothing to note of right now

Pros

good pension and decent benefits

Cons

a lot of politics and lack of direction

Pros

Fairly good work/life balance. Recently adjusted formal UK working hours from 09:00 - 17:00 (from 17:30) Expected to put in the hours (including weekends) when working on deals, but otherwise you go home when 5pm rolls around. Excellent pension.

Cons

Unwilling to pay "market" salaries even when hard evidence is provided. Over the years we have had pathetic pay increases of "inflation only", and in 2019, only the junior and administration staff received a salary uplift. The rest of us got a big fat ZERO. Bonuses also slashed in 2019 and expectation is it will happen again this year. Senior management are largely from Scotland and 90%+ male. There is no transparency as to how appointments are made.

Advice to Management

Employees are disappearing much like rats leaving a sinking ship. Unless you have your head stuck in the sand you must know this is down to compensation, and the opaque management.

Pros

good vacation benefits; generally nice teammates;

Cons

below industry average salary; top management don't really know where to lead, and they focus too much on their own politics and survival instead of caring about the morale of employees-inefficient mergers and acquisitions; terrible communication and conservative attitude towards new things/innovation; bad performers who are pickthanks can survive very well in the company

Advice to Management

please relocate that money spent on unnecessary travels and accommodations for senior managers to innovation and infrastructure building. a firm where only pickthanks with poor performance can survive is a dangerous signal for the company good.

Pros

Innovative product, well financed, great benefits and salary packages

Cons

Quite a sales led culture which sometimes lacked consideration for the product

Pros

Perfect Benefits and work-life balance

Cons

The way it is organised

Pros

Very good benefits because the company is so toxic it’s the only way management can keep staff. Good work life balance because they hire 3 people to do the one of one person.

Cons

Teach people how to use a phone, no need to fly everywhere. Stop being so proud of your a white male Scottish company, it’s simply racist. Promoting people on colour and not skill is a stupid business strategy. It’s ok, we can then hire more consultants to fix it.

Advice to Management

You have one of the biggest gender pay gaps, the aim is to reduce it, not increase it. Lots of poor management wasting millions, surely the money must have run out?

Pros

flexible working.. to a point

Cons

Every part of your time is analysed, you have to justify your work on a daily basis

Advice to Management

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