Pros
Depending on your client, work-life balance will be ok. Colleagues are pretty helpful. Pay is fairly standard, though some companies pay slightly more. You get more sick days than other companies and they’re not lumped in with vacation. Health insurance though not the best are also three tier which is better than other financial service companies as they’re not all just high deductible plans.
Cons
Pretty much all decisions in the last two years have not been employee centric. 401k is paid out once a year which prevents you from benefiting from any dollar cost averaging. Benefits have slowly been eroding. New CEO is trying to align the company with the rest of the industry at the cost of losing staff. Closing one office and relocating, causing the staff to pay more in income tax and offering no raise or incentive. Laying off once a year and then claiming an increase in Q1 revenue, then trying to rehire that same staff back. Very rigid with return to office, absolutely no exceptions for people with longer commutes. Hiring people from out of state and not communicating the closure of one office even though that would increase the new hires commute by over an hour. Offering no quality of life raises to most staff in 2023. Also upward mobility is non existent. Outside hires are brought in to fill higher level positions.