Edward Jones reviews

Limited product offerings, firm pressures advisors to take on regional and recruiting efforts with no compensation, they own the client book, poor benefits package, low payouts, unrealistic expense caps, compliance/field supervision is repressive, management does not tolerate individual thinking. Family/work balance for them is 70 hours/6daysof work. Survey for "Best Place to Work" is orchestrated. To leave the firm without legal entanglements you must retire or die. Firm does not provide any support for local communities.

You are on your own in a branch with one Financial Advisor and if you don't get along guess what that's your problem according to Associate Relations in home office who pretend to be on your side so that you open up to them and then they turn it around on you and use your words against you. I was told to change my ways so I could cater to my Financial Advisor and if I was not willing to do things the way he wanted me to I could go find another branch. I was fired on the spot even though I have had an outstanding on every review, have gotten the highest ratings and maximum bonus amounts allowed and was offered Limited Partnership. I found out that even though I thought they valued me as an employee and saw me as an asset to the branch apparently anyone is expendable and they do not have your best interest at heart. The home office is based out of St. Louis and they did all of this over the phone without room for discussion. I felt like they were reading from a script and it was easier to fire me because it was done over the phone and there was no emotion involved. I was treated like a criminal even though what I had done was in the client's best interest and under the pressure of my Financial Advisor that I should be on the quest for perfection and I had missing information. My FA that I had been with for over a year did not even begin to try to help me and that hurt a lot. I feel very betrayed.