Wish I could say it wasn't a waste of time.
Pros
- Decent Pay - Great Benefits - Pretty Campus - Solid Cafeteria - Fairly stable company although they go through massive layoffs when the market tanks the same as everyone else.
Cons
- Company expects everybody to be as emotionally invested in it as though they are traders making big time dollars/dividends even if that employee is just a part of the process and not a revenue driver/reaping the benefits. - Unnecessarily secretive regarding company direction and financial performance leading to uncertainty about ones future. - Expectations upon associates that exceed compensation. - Managerial philosophy that places a premium on "going the extra mile" throughout the company, but in practice it often leads to disenfranchisement when management essentially creates work for the sake of work and looking busy followed by dissenting employees being browbeaten. - Management claims to have desire to embrace innovation and new ideas. But in practice this is often discouraged with extreme prejudice. As though they know these things are important to the company's future while at the same time being extremely uncomfortable with the prospect of dealing with the associated ambiguity. - Most of the work at the company resembles a glorified production line so it can be very difficult to get time off for a decent length vacation. -Promotes VERY difficult to come by. -Back and middle office jobs/teams/departments are an absolutely brutal environments. I can't totally ding them for this though as it seems to be the case throughout the rest of the investment management industry as well. - If you aren't part of the client facing component you are essentially a second class citizen.
