Pros
You get your own office and an assistant. They pay for you to get your investment and insurance licenses.
Cons
The company recruited me while making the job sound like a financial planning type job. In reality it was a financial product sales job. They actually don't train you as much as they claim. Only enough for you to sell products and then you'll learn some financial planning skills along the way. They make you door knock to gather hundreds of phone numbers and the call these people to sell products or get appointments. This goes on for years. They only measure the advisors on how much revenue (fees and commissions) and assets transferring in. Every month they want more revenue generated. They don't measure you on things clients care about (knowledge, professional designations, customer service skills, investment returns, etc). They advertise that they are for the best interest of the client while they accept hidden kickbacks from mutual fund companies and push the advisors to generate more revenue for the firm. They convince the advisors that it's "their business" when in fact its not. Clients are the firms. They won't become full fiduciaries and only are a fiduciary on retirement accounts because they have to be now by law. Most of the employees believe the company is the best thing since sliced bread but haven't look at what else is out there and how other companies are run. Recruiting is emphasized insanely because they actually can't keep the advisors.