Not Great - Asset Management Analyst Boston Capital Employee Review

3.0
9 Jun 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The younger people in the office are nice. Two good company events during the year.

Cons

Working in LIHTC Asset Management is very administrative. This firm is stuck in the early 90's. Everything is done on actual printed paper and then re-scanned back into the computer. They use a proprietary software that is terrible. It's just a more confusing folder system to save all of their scanned in documents. All of the GP's use Yardi which is the industry standard, so it doesn't make any sense why they are trying to use their own software. There's lot's of wasted time cross checking data because half the time it was entered into the proprietary system incorrectly. Every AM team does the same things differently some make the process for simple tasks much more drawn out while other's just get too the point. There is an astronomical amount of turnover at the junior positions mostly because the pay is way below market.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
8 Dec 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Young people were smart and just all around great people

Cons

Everything else: - Low pay. Like really low. - Dull culture - no inspiration, no energy, no motivation - Senior members weren't great - some wouldn't even show up for weeks at a time or show up like twice a week - Mid-level members all looked pretty upset and just had a horrible energy. But how could you not? They were probably underpaid, underutilized, and doing extremely boring work - all of them for 5+ years! - Analysts were glorified administrative assistants. Even if you wanted to grow, you couldnt because you had to deal with an outdated system - some things that should take seconds, would take 30 minutes. Scanning, printing, sorting through paper, running to get signatures, and organizing folders was 70% of the job - Turnover was really high among young people because of all of the above. Company lost some really bright analysts (but you also couldnt be mad them - anyone would go crazy in this type of environment) - No diversity. Only a handful of minorities during my time, and they were all smart and brought some life to the company (but left because everyone leaves). HR did a horrible job in this department (honestly not even sure we had an HR department...) - And again - growth was limited - almost discouraged. It was just extremely sad

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