Typical Outdated Grandfather Firm - Brokerage Empower Employee Review

1.0
30 Mar 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You get to collect a paycheck.

Cons

- compliance nightmare - terrible onboarding experience if you can consider what they call onboarding any type of training - stuck in their outdated ways - the accountability for the brokerage team lacking any leadership or understanding gets pass around to anybody but the manager - horrible company culture - forces OT without communicating that in the hiring process - the amount of gossiping the director and managers engage & initiate is surreal given their ages - witness multiple team memeber have anxiety attacks due to the lack of leadership and workload and the director and managers blamed it on the rep, which th no self-reflection - the manual process and lack of management involvement is a compliance nightmare waiting to explode.

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Empower Response
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We appreciate your feedback and are sorry to hear about your experience. While this doesn’t reflect the experience, we strive to create at Empower, we encourage all associates to communicate with management and/HR if you have any concerns.

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5.0
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Pros

Empower fully supports work life balance. They also support and encourage community service. I like the fact that they match not only by monetary contributions, they also match actual volunteer hours with money. Management at all levels is committed and invested in you professionally and personally.

Cons

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2.0
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Pros

It is a consistent paycheck in an industry that isn't going anywhere. The benefits are average to slightly below average. If you are lucky, your immediate manager will be a real person and not just a faceless suit.

Cons

A caution to the culture : Empower is more interested in APPEARING to be a good place to work instead of actually being a good place to work. The employees were instructed by HR to leave a Glassdoor review IF we enjoy working at Empower. They made no mention of everyone leaving honest feedback regardless of their feelings about the company. That is incredibly telling about the culture and priorities of the company.

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