Pros
Friendly atmostphere, Great office location
Cons
If you are female or a minority...this is the place to work and get promoted quickly. I have seen numerous highly qualified white males passed over for promotion and newly hired females (black, hispanic etc) be placed in positions of responsibility for which they then have to be trained by those same passed over white males. I have seen instances where a young white male leaves the company on good terms and is not hired back, but a young white woman leaves for a rival b/d and then comes back only to be promoted to a senior management. Senior management has said (off the record) that while they are aware of areas that we should improve our compliance oversight (of our 11,000 plus financial advisors), they won't do so until FINRA or the SEC fines us.