Pros
- The company is massive and may look good on CV - Canteen/ cafeteria is good and subsidized. - That's it!
Cons
- Horrible salary, much below industry average and HR is completely unwilling to negotiate. They have a set salary for each job range, associate 1, associate 2, senior associate, etc. It's a" take the salary or leave" atmosphere. - Unqualified coworkers. This is simply due to the low salary, they are unable to attract qualified workers. As a result the place is full of graduates, and not the good kind. You are left with graduates with a 2.2 ( a horrible grade in Ireland) who would not be employed if it wasn't for the massive talent shortage Ireland is experiencing. - You'd be left training those unqualified graduates. Again, as State Street gets the worst graduates, they often make the worst employee, and you will have to train them, except, as is reflected in their GPA, they are not good at learning. ( I have seen employees who have been there for 6months and still did not know how to use the Ctrl +C / Ctrl+V shortcut to copy and paste.......) - The managers are so used to dealing with those unqualified graduates that they treat everyone as such and provide little to no training or supervision. They are simply happy to have underpaid & under-qualified graduates to push a few buttons here and there and alleviate their own workload. - Massive overtime ( we are talking about leaving the office at 8-9pm frequently with the occasional peak at 10-11pm).