Pros
Great training and licensing. You'll come in with all young people just out of college, and will be paid to study and train for the first few months. All throughout, the work life balance is second to none...you will never take work home. If you are helping to support a family and want to ensure that you won't be fired (unless you're the most incompetent person in the world), and want great benefits while skating through your day to day..this is a great opportunity.
Cons
Where to start....Right off the bat, it's a call center-which is not fully relayed in any regard during the interview process. You are on a phone, micromanaged to a disgusting degree- to the extent that you have to use portions of your 30 minute a day break to go to the bathroom (let's not skip the fact that there are certain portions of the day that you cannot use your break, like before or after lunch. Let's hope you didn't have a big lunch) This will make you hate your job and resent the whole environment, unless you specifically want to be working in a call center. The ability for upward movement in Charlotte, absolute joke. The company does nothing to make you want to stay-no fun perks, dull environment, no "real" reward for success or accomplishments (if you think getting a piece of candy or a pat on the back, or getting recognized in an email is satisfying....then this doesn't apply to you). The compensation is laughable for the asset values you will be entrusted to handle, trade on, and discuss. Once again I want to stress, the company does nothing of real value to incentivize you to stay....hence why the turnover ratio is what it is. Lastly - and keep in mind this is the SparkNotes version - a few things they also don't tell you about in interviews: you may be required to work a few Saturdays during tax season (luckily they cut Saturday hours, but who knows if that will stay), even if you have PTO available (and to be fair, they give you a good bit).. the time has to be available within the company (Random Wednesday you want to have off that you scheduled two weeks ago? Don't assume it'll automatically be approved. Christmas eve, day before Thanksgiving, etc.? Yea that's on a bid system..good luck), if it's busy they will cut your lunch in half with potentially a day's notice, and there is a good chance they will add job responsibilities on your agreed upon job description and extort you to whatever extent they can get away with based on your licensing. If you haven't done the proper research on jobs or you really want to start off in Finance with no experience, this isn't the worst place to get started in your career. But beyond that initial experience, I would not recommend any of the positions within the Charlotte location
