Edward Jones reviews

Starting from ZERO accounts and trying to build a book of business by going door-to-door dressed like a Jehovah's Witness is extremely inefficient. Their business plan is to hire as many FAs as possible, hope they open a few accounts, and then fire them for not meeting performance expectations and transfer their accounts to those who have "made it". The few FAs who are successful usually rely on getting friends and family members to invest with them in order to get their business going. The company culture is very Kool-Aid-ish. They send you to the home office for rah-rah training and hold regional meetings to try and motivate you to sell. They say all you need to do is follow the "recipe", which is make 25 contacts a day--what a joke. Working from home also sucks--its hard to seem credible when you tell a prospect you work out of your kitchen.

Terrible communication, worse pay, horrific benefits, no work life balance. Senior leadership is there to pad their own pockets at the expense of their associates and will step all over anyone who stands in the way of their ability to continue climbing the ladder. An executive leadership team that spews useless word salads while pretending to care about company culture and act as though they are doing right by people. There is no culture anymore.