Pros
- Good Work-Life Balance - People are generally nice / Middle management is willing to mentor even across work teams
Cons
Kow Tow Nature to head honcho and his army of yes men in senior mgmt shows there remains ways to career progression Protip: make sure to laugh at jokes told by senior mgmt during meetings Constantly changing pet projects by CEO (Movement towards ESG one year, then ETFs the next and wtv flavor of the year thrown out by FT) to mask the fact that the business is in structural decline (Net outflow of AUM) (Then again the entire AM business is too small and negligible to the bank such that they get away scott free) High turnover amongst junior staff, more than 80% of investment analysts has resigned within the FI team, each year young analysts get conned before "putting people first" is lip service