Pros
Before MS, Great culture, good pay, leadership made decisions based on employee feedback and tried to find ways to help people grow and build a career. Technology was actually advancing. People were proud to work for that ETrade.
Cons
Ever since February 2020, when the sale was announced, this place has been going downhill and it has only accelerated since the former ETrade leadership was removed and replaced by some MS clowns with no experience in this space and not a single logical or reasonable thought amongst them. Expectations for teams to hit their production and sales stats are under considerably higher scrutiny, with a peculiar emphasis on some totally irrelevant data points. While the emphasis on actually satisfying clients has taken a back seat, which is evident in how complicated and inefficient these recently ordained overlords have made just about everything. As a result, people are miserable and constantly waiting for the next decree to be issued at the very last second before its haphazard implementation. It’s a well known fact that Morgan Stanley bought ETrade for their stock plans business, and the platforms. Lesser known is that their own self directed product was a colossal failure, and now, the same group of incompetent fools with no idea about the retail trading world are inserting their unimaginable ignorance into what was once a highly regarded firm, and in doing so, destroying everything that E*Trade used to be, one self promoting, unilateral decision at a time.
