software engineer

indexer

senior software engineer

business development representative

event specialist

NASDAQ

If you work in broadcast at the Marketsite get ready for the following:

NOT SO GOOD
-no chance for advancement, the department is minuscule.
-the pay is not bad (50-80K) but there are much higher paid employees in the financial areas of the company making 6 figures +
-the control room is basically a closet, and the heat does not work
when the outside temps fall into the teens and below.
-they pile so much work on you that the chance for mistakes in a complex environment is very high.
-mistakes are not tolerated and you will be terminated for making too many
-low level management has no real control over the employees or to determine the amount of work requested from the upper management.
-intimidation from upper management to be terminated is high
-upper management are not broadcasting professionals and do not understand the limitations and capabilities of a broadcast studio
-"make it happen or we will find someone who can" is the mantra of upper management.
-nepotism is rampant
-chance that they will claim you were doing something inappropriate on your computer and use it to fire you (this happened to a colleague)
-the speeches for the bell ceremonies are absurd, they basically
copy and paste from the listed companies "about us" page
Nasdaq management sound like fools when it is obvious that they
really have no idea of what they are talking about. 

THE GOOD
-pay is OK, not great but better than some places
-benefits are good, Cigna is just OK not great
-bonus of about 5% yearly
-restricted stock awards, if you can hang in there for at least 3 yrs
-the CEO is nice and a pleasure to work with

The Times Square office is an unusual environment.  It is run by a Mean Girls event staff and an endless parade of VPs that empower them. Since the workspace is shared by CNBC, employees are sometimes made to be props at their desks.  Since it is also a rental place for events, sometimes you cannot do your work without retreating elsewhere. 

There are too many VPs wasting time calling meetings and too few staff members to help complete the mountains of work.  It's an organization that boasts of lean-ness: an employee gets to do the work of two or three people.  Emails, calls, texts and other forms of communication are endless over the evenings, early-AM and, of course, holidays & weekends.  Employees are always expected to be on call.  Many stay to do their actual work after 5.

Depending on the job function, it may be a good place to work if using it as a short-term stepping stone.  It's good if you are fairly young, do not value time off or disconnecting when off, and have a lot of energy.  You can learn a lot and be exposed to varied experiences.

At Nasdaq you will work with some of the smartest people you have ever worked with, but you will work nonstop. Your out-of-office email will be ignored, your vacation time means nothing. Nasdaq hires the most talented people they can find and runs them into the ground. Why people stay as long as they do I have no idea, but I've been there about three years and it's all I can do to not walk off the job every day. You will check you work email morning, noon, and night and your supervisors will think nothing of emailing you at 6 a.m. asking to have something to them by 8 a.m. They will think nothing of scheduling calls on weekends and holidays. One Sunday I was on a work conference call while driving to my mother's memorial service (to be fair: I had not told anyone at work my mother's memorial service was that weekend, I would have likely been excused from the call if I had, and these weekend calls are rare but frequent enough to be enraging). I've had the opportunity to work with brilliant people on some amazing projects, but there is zero work/life balance and anyone who objects is told Nasdaq is not for them.

Great benefits - 6% 401k match, and they have nice elements like paid time for volunteering (2 days each year). That said, what management is saying about the culture and what is the reality of the culture are polar opposites. 

Nasdaq is a meeting obsessed culture - many individuals spend their entire 9+ hours in the office bouncing from one meeting to another, only to do their real work after hours. It's not uncommon to see people online well past 10 or 11pm and back online at 6 or 7am before making it into the office. 

Employees respond to emails on weekends, any hour of the night, on vacations, holidays, you name it. As a result, employees are getting burnt out but continue to force the pace because of recent lay-offs and restructurings. 

HR has extreme turnover - you get a new HR rep every few weeks it seems. Ever since the West Corporation deal announcement, things have taken a turn for the worse. Management boasts that the organization is "lean" but the reality is, one person ends up doing the work of 3 people, as one other review mentioned.

No day was typical. Purchasing, A/P, Cell Phone duties, Mailroom coverage made for non-boring atmosphere.
Education in house and off site:
PeopleSoft Financial System, Nortel Telephone System, How to be a better Buyer, Purchasing and the Law, How to handle difficult Indivduals. Time Management. Contract negotiations. Introduction to Securities. Cell phone management. Cross trained on all departmental positions, never lacked coverage.
Almost daily contact with some member of Senior Management. Open Door Policy with entire management staff.
Co-workers never to busy to help. Have maintain many friendships.
The most enjoyable parts of my job(s):
The varied postions I held.
The independence and trust given to each employee.
The staff and the relaxed atomsphere
The ability to take advantage of educational benefits NASDAQ made availble.
The recongnition of a job well-done.
Everyone was on a first name basis.

Working in one of the fastest-paced Financial Marketplaces in the world is no place for the average 9-to-5'er. To succeed in this environment, you need to be a self-starter, stay cool under what can be extreme pressure, and be a firm believer in the days ends whenever it ends.
On the other hand, this is still a small company, where an individual that excels can be recognized (and rewarded) for their efforts, instead of lost in a myriad of large team efforts. 
All-in-all, the stresses of the job tends to weed out employees that really aren't up for a challenge, distilling the company into a group of motivated folks that understand the difference between "going to work" and what it takes to make a company truly great.

I'm deeply appreciative of the opportunity I had to be part of such an exceptional team. The Nasdaq Metrio team (FDM in particular) is passionate about their work, totally supportive of each other when the going is good, and more importantly when the going gets tough. I have never met a more collaborative, self-less group of professionals in my career. 

Nasdaq, overall, is a fantastic company to work with, allowing each individual to develop and grow (as I did) in a form and direction that will best benefit not only the individual but the company as a whole. Can’t say enough about the Metrio FDM team nor the greater Nasdaq. 


The company is definitely growing and doing well! Your coworkers are typically all really nice and helpful. However you only reshot get to ever see your very small and close group. There are so many subsections to the company I don’t even know what goes on half the time me there. You would think Recruiting, right? Some but it’s mostly sales. One small subsection is classified as the recruiters. The company was so up and coming… the training lacked. Everyone was just too busy with what they were doing to officially train another. Easy to fall in the cracks. Overall the company is say is good. There is no commission though, but a base salary plus a quarterly bonus of a percentage of your salary. Personally I think you would make more in the commission with the recruiter base salary. 

This is a standard big-business corporate environment where employees are encouraged to provide feedback but are afraid to speak their minds.
If you prefer corporate mumbo-jumbo over real conversations, this is the place for you.
Looking good in the eyes of the organization is preferred over doing any actual work.
Manager meetings can be especially entertaining as the head-honcho sits at the center of the conference desk while attendees take turns either nodding their heads in agreement or nodding thier heads off to sleep as the ringmaster  looks from side of the room to the other.
For further reference, watch the movie "Office Space".  It's not far off the mark.

Support current state Information Technology (IT) assessments through interviews, data analysis, and the documentation of findings. Develop requirements for data extracts to support internal test work in preparation for a financial statement audit. Liaise with client stakeholders and subject matter professionals. Facilitate and lead working sessions and meetings with SME, clients, and stakeholders. Prepare and maintain related project technical training documentation and provide input into decisions, including project planning and resource allocation. Support disparate system reconciliations for an enterprise data warehousing effort. Lead a work-stream under the supervision of the project manager. This position is located in Arlington, VA.

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