HAMPSTER WHEEL - AVOID AMS - Associate Raymond James Financial Employee Review

1.0
Sep 15, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The pay and benefits are comparable within the industry in Florida, beautiful office campus in St. Petersburg, and the company is well represented in the community. Executive level management is very professional and extremely kind.

Cons

The back office areas of RJ are borderline sweat shops. Extremely high turnover & excessive micro-management. I cannot express enough how out of control the micro-management is that occurs (they will time your bathroom breaks and time away from your desk, even if you are working with a co-worker on the same floor.). Collaboration/training between co-workers is not allowed without approval and also must be monitored by a supervisor. If you are an independent thinker, are innovative, self motivated - and like being treated as an adult - don't work here. The workloads are un-sustainable for existing staff. Even salaried employees work 12-14 hours days with no relief. Since 2018, my department has had a exodus of 4 people, 6 people in 2019, 2 in 2020, and now another 4 in 2021. Either management is aware and justifies the high turnover as cost of doing business due to the "high burnout rate" of the positions, or they are not aware or being misled - either way - its bad.

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Cons

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Cons

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