- No transparency from the "Leadership Team" at all regarding how well the company is doing or what future plans are. In general, the leadership team acts like they're above mingling with the rest of the employees, or like even smiling and greeting other employees when passing in the halls.
- HR seems to be really bad at hiring and it results in many employees doing twice the amount of work they should be doing. There is also very high turnover for a company of this size.
- There is no clear path to promotion, and often it can feel like M is trying to artificially hold you back from being promoted in order to save money in the short-term. In the long-term, they will lose good employees that they keep short-changing to save a buck. It does not feel like hard work gets you very far at M.
- Unless you're involved in one of the company's five "strategic initiatives" it will constantly feel like your team and work is forgotten in the scope of what the company wants to do, and you will feel easily disposable.
- Most employee engagement and social activities seem to be coming from the bottom-up because the leadership team isn't interested in the activities. A lot of activities seem to be scheduled at the last minute with very little advance notice, making it hard to set aside work or re-schedule life activities in order to participate.
- Shockingly bad retirement package for a wealth management group
- Low morale among employees and widespread gossip due to total lack of transparency from company leadership or HR
- A LOT of totally meaningless business jargon thrown around by leadership and management. It sometimes felt like working in the Twilight Zone. The annual performance assessment had questions that were rendered incomprehensible because they were jammed with important-sounding doublespeak that could have easily been stated in plain English. Some managers handed out an explanatory document to employees to "translate" some of the questions so we could even answer them. M leadership seems to value sounding big and important over being understood by the employees doing the work.
