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DONNELLEY FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS

The Composition of "DFIN" (second rebranding in 5 years) is living on borrowed time. With that in mind, the management and the supervisory staff is only comprised of employees with no leadership, staffing or "out of company" training. 

Favoritism runs rampant to "meet business needs," because they figure they can "rely" on their friends and favorite employees. It even causes for staffing for the now 6 shifts we have. Yes six shifts, how many office environments do you know that has six shifts? Management (who only works first shift and no weekends) thought this would assist in the woeful work/life balance we have. Along with the laughable and worthless two hour cancellation notice these new shifts only allow more confusion among the employees. Also there is no such thing as in-climate weather, there could be six of snow on the ground (which there was before) and management would write you up for not reporting.    

Management has also instituted many placation devices to "keep the rable happy." Such as a "school store" of sorts which if we do well (our job) we get various coolers and shirts and department branded office supplies. Keep in mind, the department is in its twilight years, so we cant even afford functioning monitors and keyboards. They have also on occasion has sprung for a pizza party. Unfortunately,  when the company has given 1% raises (for the top employees) and has not even thought about cost of living raises in over years, pizza and pens are meaningless. The initial pay is one positive, but once you reach the "mid point" (as they say) you will not have any more opportunity for increases.

The company pays for and develops a propriety typesetting program and system that is sadly antiquated and a real bear to work with. Mind you, you can put propriety programs on a resume. They have all the opportunities to use programs such as Microsoft Word or Adobe Indesign, but they still stick to fixing and adding features to this outdated system.

In a nutshell, do not waste your time here. The department will not be around long enough for you to add to your skill set and resume if you can even squeeze any skills worth while out of "DFIN." There is a terrible work life balance, with no opportunity to advance past it.

The department I worked in took temps, and had them work for nearly a year and half before hiring them full time. Sometimes that didn't happen, and then they'd get offended when they found out you were looking elsewhere for real employment. 

The department  was overly micromanaged, in my opinion, and the manager pretended to be nice, but it's a ruse. Seriously, don't fall for it. Suggestions or complaints about how things are done result in getting called into the manager's office and being told why you're wrong. 

As a result of the above, it results in a revolving door of temps and permanent employees. In the nearly two years I was there, *numerous* people were hired and fired. You gain very little knowledge that translates to other jobs and industries, which just makes the aforementioned situation worse. Until they hire you as a full time employee, you're wasting your time in a job that ultimately has little payoff. When management "found out" (that is to say, after a coworker informed them) that was looking for work elsewhere, they began treating me badly and began actively looking for every tiny mistake they could nail me with—and *every* mistake you make is tracked in an Excel sheet.

If you want to work 50 hours a week, and don't mind being yanked along as a temp for 2 years, this is the place to go. (As an aside, the recruiter for this job doesn't mention how long you're going to be a temp here. She tells you it's a 90-day period, but it's not true in the slightest.)

The only good thing about working there was the amount of overtime, and the fact it's steady pay. Great coworkers, though.

I've never written a review about an employer before, but this one definitely earned it. Anyone who comes across this, please take this warning and others before me seriously.

This company portrays a relaxed environment initially, and while the pay is decent, and some of the people are nice, the management is awful and you have no job security. After the fourth week of training I was contacted by my recruiter and told Donnelly was canceling my contract, and they made up lies as to why. It was a dirty and dishonest move considering my trainer felt I was doing great.

Anyone who has a family or values their livelihood, please consider this review and others before me about the mass hiring/firing this company does. They will mass hire and then weed out most of whom they hire shortly after you start. The reviews on here we're spot on honest. Watch out for this place and if you found this review I'm glad I was able to warn someone of the dishonesty this company let's it's management get away with. There are employees, (good employees) who have been there a long time and are still temps, it truly is a mind field that you only get through by chance. 

I hope this review saves some people from what happened to me and my family financial well-being, I'm an optimist and I did get some bad vibes about reviews I read before I started, but chose to think maybe those were just different circumstances, but they weren't kidding.

Donnelley Financial Solutions is a wonderful company for getting your foot in the door and learning some useful skills. There is room for advancement, but it only goes so far. At some point, you are going to be stuck in what seems to be a dead end job and forced to try and look elsewhere. In my department, the management is wonderful, but I can't speak for all departments and Donnelley is a big company. The benefits are there, but they could be way better. Every year they get worse and take more and more away from us. I used to think Donnelley was a secure place to work, but there was a huge Company split recently, and since then, there has been a ton of lay-offs (we saw some incredible people go) and department shut downs. We are hoping there won't be anymore, but there are a lot of folks a little worried for their jobs. 

So, if you are looking for a place to jump start a career and settle in for a few years, Donnelley is a great place to work. Overall, I am very happy here, but I have reached the point in my career where I need to move on to something bigger and better.

Once the company split of into its own section, the work life balance became incredibly unstable and the direction of the company stopped moving in a productive direction I wanted to support. 

During peak seasons we have been required to work mandatory overtime and weekends which could sometimes end up being 65+ hours for a month straight.
Another instance, the management fired a round of employees directly before another peak season, hired an entire shift of new people and pushed the workload onto long-time employees, forcing them into the same pattern of mandatory overtime.  

The calendar used to have a wide amount of time you could request time off and now literally half the calendar is marked as as blackout. Nothing that I have personally have planned out falls outside of these blackout periods where they had been ok in previous years.

A few managers here also contribute to extremely obvious nepotism and micromanaging has become a frustrating normal part of the workplace.

Overall people are nice.  They are operating in Silo's and need to make an effort to break down walls and communicate. Also need  to invest in tools to assist great minds in improving work. The hardest part of the job is actually seeing great work efforts ackno Rewledged.  The culture does not promote from within and upper management have a mentality that if they take on more at the top they will have job security.  There is a need for growth and trust within the teams to make a real change. Definitely don't need  more Managers or Directors telling people below them what to do.  If anything they should be making there case to put the right people in the right place and invest in employees and new technologies to help advance the company.

If you like no room for advancement,harrasement,favoritism,and no set goals it's your job. I formally worked at DFS for sixteen years,let go due to "workforce reduction".I had just had 15 hrs overtime the week before. I feel if management doesn't know how to lower unit cost,they let higher payed employees go. It's know way to run a business. I was always baffleled about our throughput sheets for productivity, clearly they didn't work yet no one addressed it. I was one of few trained on various positions in warehouse,"job security"?.I was over the job overall want miss the one % raises for the last ten years,

There seems to be a disconnect between the intention and the execution of Donnelley's strategy in entering the FinTech world.  While the potential for growth is available, the management style and company culture is still very archaic.  10 annual vacation days for the first five years of employment, no 401k match, no clear path for growth exists and the company as a whole failed to even produce an org chart for the ambitious employee to seek out their own career path.  It is a brilliant company as far as strategy over time as RR Donnelley to acquire and repurpose several companies along the way--as a spin-off, hopefully DFS will change the impression RRD left behind.

This business would be a wonderful success if the management received proper training. They promote from within however they do not provide proper training for management to understand the cause and effect of employee related harassment. They fire based off of emotional retaliation and poor judgement. The company has recently split off from RR Donnelly and the management and leadership team is truly lacking in professional training and knowledge of hostile work environment. Termination is decided based off of emotions and not better business. Its a shame. There are many old timers which are exactly that, burned out.

What is the best part of working at the company?
They paid an hourly rate that was a good living wage.  The pay was probably one of the higher rates in the area.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Mandatory  overtime. Had to work some 10 hour and 12 hour days. Also, working  every other weekend.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The environment was fair
 The culture was somewhat unfair to people of color.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Worked as a Composition Specialist, my job was fast paced. When arriving sometimes I would need to take over a job someone started on the previous shift. Also, there were jobs there which were quick turn around that needed completed right away and sent to Customer Service department.

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