Pros
-401(k), 6% matching -Great health/dental benefits -Base Salary (If you're a top performer) -Majority of the in branch staff are awesome people to work with -Great Opportunity to get your foot in the door in the financial industry, and get sales experience
Cons
-Staffing is atrocious, many days were spent with myself closing with one teller, while handling lobby clients, clients on the platform side, as well as two drive-thru lanes in a branch that has very heavy foot traffic -Constantly having to deal with AOO's breathing down your neck giving you audit exceptions or giving you a hard time for not have part of a log or sheet of paper filled out with the right wording that they feel is fit. While knowing full well, that you're doing the job of 3 people, and don't have tons of time to sit out and fill out 4 different logs for one thing. -Total disconnect with upper management, they will require you to be on multiple conference calls every week that you really have no need to be on, while at the same time you have to leave you're staffing out to dry because you have to be stuck in a room on the call and can't help any clients. They will also change goals, strategy, and focus about every two weeks, which makes it nearly impossible to every see a strategy all the way through. -They constantly preach doing what is best for the client, this is not true at all. They're a big bank folks, they're here to make money. Those who get promoted are the ones that sell the most products and bring in the most revenue, once I realized this it made my job a lot easier and allowed me to perform better. Get them to sign on the dotted line, then on to the next one, once you can no longer sell them products they are no longer of use to you. This is real churn and burn banking. -They will not pay you a decent wage until you have really proven that you are worth losing, I was under paid the majority of the almost 3 years I was there. It wasn't until I was a top 10 performer in my region for an entire year straight, and got another offer from another bank did they offer to give me a tremendous pay raise.