Edward Jones reviews

3.4

53% would recommend to a friend

(5,333 total reviews)
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57% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Edward Jones has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 5,333 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Edward Jones employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Nov 2, 2011
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Pros

Great div trips Best training Always someone willing to help you out Never run out of things to do

Cons

Mental beat down. If you start as a new new FA with Jones you need to have a long list of people that you already know that will invest with you. As a new new FA your success is won or lost literally at peoples door step. Big brother is ALWAYS watching. Must drink the kool aid, the minimum number of contacts is 25 but they want you to do more then 25, so your goal is 30, but then you must beat your own goal so really you must get 35 contacts. If the number is 35, then say it is 35, don't be around the bush and say 25 contacts a day when the real goal is 35 contacts. Really have to be mentally fit to accept failing 98% of the time, there have been countless days where I spent the entire day door knocking and never got anything out of any of those door knocks. It is really funny because I looked at these comments before I accepted the FA position with Jones three years ago and I rationalized every negative comment with "well they just didn't do the work." But you don't know how difficult it is until you are forced to make some commissions on a street you have knocked 8 times or get let go.

4.0
Oct 12, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Freedom to manage own time

Cons

Commission only compensation, work environment can be isolated at times

2.0
Oct 11, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

As long as you sell and your numbers are where EJ wants them to be, you'll have freedom and everyone will tell you how great you are. great HQ support if you know how to ask the right questions.

Cons

Unless you get some assets. i.e. 10Mil plus. Your going to have a very very hard 4 years. even if your hitting goals your not making much, and the stress gets to the strongest person. After the first year ends , so does the salary. Thats when it realy get stressful. your going after 401k rollovers and small amounts of savings people have in the begining. Rollovers can take a week to over a month. if starting from scatch or you get a small book. plan on living on 3k a month for the next 3 years. yeh you might have a really great month but it will be followed by a terrible one.

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