- Axos is firm about wanting people in the office even with a pandemic ongoing. There was even a positive case on my floor, and while there were multiple of us in a meeting room with them for over an hour, we were told to come into work still the next day as "they wore a mask so you're fine".
- Axos also utilizes ActivTrac to monitor employee efficiency, noting when your mouse has been inactive for over 2 minutes.
- Cubicles in the center of the building have no real sunlight.
- Supposedly, the turnover here is somewhere near 40%, and it seems that everyone I meet here had just started a few months to a year or two ago.
- As a JBA, your workload can fluctuate a lot as sometimes you have the workload of a regular analyst and other times you have to fight for busy work.
- There's not many days off during the year, with only federal bank holidays counting. In 2021, we weren't even given a Christmas or new years observed even though those days fell on a weekend.
- Severe lack of training at the start. Manager introduced themselves and essentially had another analyst delegate busy work to me for the next month.
- Low opportunities for promotions/raises; if you earn a promotion you basically take on the extra responsibilities but don't get paid the new rate until 6 months later.
- The term Junior Banking Analyst seems to just be a way for them to justify paying us less than the regular Analysts and to mask it as a learning experience.
- The rotational program is tough as it usually takes a month to get familiar and comfortable with your job, and by then you could only have 2-3 more months before you rotate to your next department.
