Equity Trust Company reviews

4.1

79% would recommend to a friend

(300 total reviews)
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George Sullivan

87% approve of CEO

83% positive business outlook

Equity Trust Company has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 300 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Equity Trust Company employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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300 reviews
1.0
Sep 9, 2010
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Pros

The Training is good, and you get to add a new skill set to you resume. You get to learn a lot of different investment types besides the normal stocks, bonds and mutual funds. That's it.

Cons

Management is terrible. Things change daily in the sales department. It reminds most of us of a boiler room in a lot of ways. It's always SELL SELL SELL...CLOSE CLOSE CLOSE. Lots of Churn and Burn type of mentality and that applies to clients and sales representatives. In my time there I must have seen 15-20 reps come in and leave in the first 3 months. Compensation is horrible they claim you can make $100K but really the only ones that make that is management. If you are in the financial services industry already please stay away it will only bring you back down. There's absolutely no career path in the sales division you are pretty much stuck there with no advancement opportunities. Basically a dead end. It does take quite a bit of will power to stay there that long. Most people stay there for the pay check because they don't have what it takes to go out on their own.

2.0
Aug 6, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

There are monthly events for employees, such as a half day at Swings and Things, or an Indian's game. Decent benefits.

Cons

Little to no communication between departments. Little communication between management and employees, and what is provided is generally only applicable for a short period of time. Decisions are made without regards to cause and effect.

2.0
Sep 17, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Great retirement package and they do have quarterly events for employes such as their black tie event . It takes the place of christmas party.

Cons

The company policies are extremely stringent down to the point they can tell you to change your fabric softener. There is little to no diversity at the company. A call center of 50 CST's 3 were minorities. The companies work enviroment is his stress and you are required to know a great deal. Their training progam is 6 weeks with a ramp up time of 6 months so they tell you. If you do not fit the mold of the their image they make it very diffucult to succeed there, If your a suburban yuppy apply... You will go far,

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