Pros
Chase is a large company with countless opportunities for its top producers. Management at the Executive level is quite competent and have a definite direction that they like to take the company. For those 750 top bankers, the sky is the limit.
Cons
If you are one of the other 7,000 or so bankers with Chase, things can seem to be more cloudy. The pressure is on to hit your numbers fresh out of your licensing exams. Your production is tracked hourly and in most cases, minute by minute. The intense focus on numbers can make a branch feel like a "boiler-room" at times without the the pay to compensate for the stress. If you aren't hitting your numbers, you garner the attention of upper level management and they want answers. Location and luck play a great role in a banker's success, but management seems to live in a vacuum and don't want to hear bankers pontificating about the basic rules of economics. There is also a culture of personality within Chase management. There is a ridiculous amount of time being wasted on e-mails, voice-mails and visits to make sense of lagging numbers. Lastly, if you are a banker not hitting your numbers consistently, it is very hard to move about the company. The standard answers from management is to get your numbers up first then they'll look into it. Don't start off as a banker if you want mobility in Chase! If you are a banker, leave then return later in a different job family.
