Pros
Great benefits package and a large company so lots of opportunity to grow. You can advance quickly if you have ambition. The retirement benefits alone make it worth it. 10 percent profit sharing...Seven percent 401k match. You can expect to make over 100k as a portfolio specialist which is decent and is truly under 45 hour work week. They are rolling out things like16 weeks paid maternity for women and 6 weeks paid for men. The best thing about the job is you do meet life long friends and work with a ton of amazing people.
Cons
They are old fashioned. They don't have a work environment that inspires creativity.They have call models and sales models that they want you to stick to "to make you successful"...they actually focus more on those models than educating about the products they want you to sell...it can sometimes make you feel like a robot and clients pick up on it. They measure performance a lot by things that don't really make business sense and have particular buckets they want you to fill. If you can get past that aspect of the job it can be a nice career.