Pros
The only pro I can truly say came out of my year and a half employment here is that it looks good on a resume.
Cons
- Bad Management, they pick and choose who they like and reward and recognize those people. If they do not like you it is made apparent by their lack of acknowledging you, their demeaning tone of speach or their feeble attempts to push you out. - Management likes to hire people who have a year experience in order to pay them the least amount, this means that the work often falls back on their more senior staff, who then doesn't get recognized for the work and in fact gets negative reviews frequently and told to perform better. - Hiring practices take forever, then when someone is hired they aren't trained properly and aren't given any guidance and told not to talk to the other staff or ask questions to other staff members which subsequently results in them being dismissed. - The office manager / operations manager likes to make up rules and regulations in the office that suit her needs and deem them "TD wide policies". - Employees have been told not to contact HR whatsoever and to bring anything of concern directly through them to which then they will decide how it will be dealt with (which is not at all). - Micromanagement is a nice term and would be welcome in comparison to the heated looking glass these teams are all under. An employees every step is watched and tracked and then analyzed back to you in a daily team huddle to tell you what you need to do more of (and less of). - Job targets and P3 objectives are unrealistic and can't be met as management is always changing the rules and the what the objective means without telling you, you also may complete it but not to their standards, therefore you fail. - Job targets and P3 are DIRECTLY related to and shown in your year end bonus. - Monthly meetings are constantly used to implement new rules and regulations and to make staff aware of the negative things they have been doing, well, also to recognize the same group of about 5 people for their outstanding work, I truly don't know how this office runs without those 5 people. - The turn over in this office is among the highest ever seen. There is an employee quitting approximately every 12 days. Stress and sick leave is common. - Employees are terrified to actually say what they feel in fear of being reprimanded or in fear of management trying to push them out after they express themselves. - Negative, stressful, toxic and hostile working environment. - Absolutely NO room for growth, NO room for training, NO budget for employee learning and prefers to hire external than to promote from within. - If you'd like to leave and go to the bank or any other department, that is at the discretion of your team manager. - DOES NOT PROVIDE REFERENCES. Will not provide you with any type of work reference. Management and lawyers are told not to provide anyone with references. Will simply confirm if and how long you were employed. - Pay is not equal to the work done and stress felt, job duties are of a Law Clerk, paid as a Legal Assistant (also forced to do general Office Administration tasks).