deVere Group reviews

Firstly the good reviews are mostly written a few weeks into your graduate program to "help the reputation of the company". This is a pure cold calling role where you are expected to gather your own leads via LinkedIn / paying for long lists of contacts. Malta slowly gets you into the cold calling role, however, Malta claims you will be doing other tasks in the hope of becoming a wealth manager. The only other task is preparing a review for your advisor which takes 10 minutes at best. You spend 4 hours a day cold calling in a boiler room set up (although the views out of the windows are normally good!) and the advisors are a mixed bunch. Some are extremely educated and deserving of the title "Wealth Manager" while others (around 80%) don't have any financial qualifications at all apart from the basic CISI exam which anyone in the street could pass.

They advertise various roles, I.e. finance graduates, wealth management graduate etc, but the actual role has nothing to do with any of that and all you’ll be is a recruitment consultant essentially. Cold calling, sales and little to no relation to the role you’ve actually applied for. This company is using you to get them more business, then after your internship or graduate programme they let you go and hire the next round of people the can exploit. The sad thing is they have current ‘graduates’ working for them trying to recruit more people to do the same thing they are doing, not realising they’re being played. I don’t usually write reviews on here but this one really needed to be said. Stay away!!