Pros
Many people are wonderful and really care about each other. The culture used to be stronger but you have access to training and the benefits are decent.
Cons
As some have mentioned, the culture has become one of extreme micromanagement, where management spends so much time tracking dumb metrics and there is so much bureaucracy that the audit department is more focused on internal administration then actually performing value added work for the business. Management has hired some terrible leaders in the department, especially on the broker dealer team, where broker dealer leadership has displayed some of the most toxic leadership behaviors, including bullying, gossiping about others, failure to manage conflict, failure to deal with poor performers, lack of any career pathing for team members, poor hiring decisions, creating a ‘yes’ mam culture, slashing budgets for projects, working extreme overtime, useless meetings where leadership listens to themself speak the whole time, and the list goes on. Each year we have repetitive conversations on why the broker dealer engmt scores tank and each year come up a list of action items that each year fail to help at all, primarily as our team needs a change in leadership. Oh, by the way we were told layoffs are coming and then we just sit around for months wondering what will happen - what company does that? Probably one that can’t manage RTO….
