Grew on many levels except salary. - Great Culture, Low Payout (Depending On Your Career Path) Raymond James Financial Employee Review

4.0
Aug 25, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

The culture is amazing. There are several events and programs that encourage employee growth, charitable events and just plain fun (ask someone about Halloween). Some of the most flexible and understanding managers I've ever worked for. Very stable even without comparing them to other businesses in the industry. They are very conservative in decision-making in order to control and maintain growth.

Cons

All that said, there is very little pay in any career paths that don't directly involve trading. For some, the cultural and non-monetary compensations stop making up for the gap in pay with respect the responsibilities they are asked to take on. Promotions are also done only once a year - so it's easy to be doing the work of a position for most of a year and not be paid for it until December. And even then, if the pool of budgeted money runs out, you could be waiting another year. I've also seen a failure to deliver on reimbursement for continuing education, even when it directly applies to the position.

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Cons

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