Pros
- Free licensing of Series 6, 7, 63, 66. - Excellent investment and mutual fund education - Challenging service environment with unique and interesting situations. - Decent (if not competitive) pay for new career/recent college graduates.
Cons
- Management is a disaster and very often is the blind leading the blind. - Espouses open communication and collaboration, but the reality is very different. - Uses 'feedback' and 'perception' environment to create an atmosphere that is not transparent and not supportive to people will to work toward management positions. - Leadership development is based on 'readiness' and not on actually developing people into leaders. - Poor training for new leaders leads to poor decision making in recruiting new leadership. - Leadership skills and talents vary wildly from leader to leader and there is no positive feedback for leaders. - People are terrified of saying what they think because it might create a 'perception' about them (whatever that means).