Edward Jones reviews

Base pay is awful. Many branch office administrators work two jobs. You will have all of the responsibilities of an office manager or senior executive assistant but will be paid as a receptionist. Some potential for bonuses but determined by branch profits and headquarters (too many unknowns to count on bonuses to pay bills). Raises are limited by headquarters and are very small. Learn as much as you can and get your resume to other firms.

- No offices! Even if you aren't an "office" employee, it would be nice to occasionally be able to talk to your boss in private in their office! - Each new year brings new priorities and a crazy shift in focus for many levels of employees. - You are reviewed every 4 months (3x a year). Does anyone like a performance review? - Your boss is not compensated by how well you do or how well they help you. It's everyone for themselves. Bosses will give you very little (if any) help in developing yourself. You are expected to do this yourself (see politics, below). - Never ending meetings. At almost any level of the organization, you will find yourself in hours of meetings each week. Each meeting, however, is LIMITED to an hour because all meeting rooms are schedule and required since no one has an office. This means that important things don't get discussed in depth and non-important things get discussed until the end of the hour. - Pay is below average for most positions and raises are extremely small. It is all formulaic, so don't expect to be a "star" and get compensated for it unless, of course, you are great at office politics (see below) and become a general partner. - The company is DESIGNED to promote OFFICE POLITICS. How? The KEY to getting promoted and getting raises is to do "projects" that are beyond your daily duties. Seriously, you could do an average (or below average) job in YOUR JOB, but get promoted (eventually to General Partner where you can literally make millions per year) if you do side "projects". - The huge payoff to becoming a general partner and that doing so attracts some of the ugliest corporate politicians you will find. They try to hide this fact, but it shows itself in many ways. Ways that make it very difficult for a high performing employee to be happy there if they don't like playing office politics. - This culture ends up rewarding two types of individuals. Some, don't want to work, aren't ambitious and like to hide in their job. These people can survey at Jones and get moderate raises throughout a long career. The other are those that are EXTREMELY ambitious (to the point of negativity) and will do ANYTHING to get ahead. - This culture ends up being very difficult for those employees that want to do good/excellent work and get recognized for it.