Pros
The training before joining was good
Cons
It's an awful company to work for. The pay was dreadful. The job description was for a Financial Advisor but it was simply a cold calling job. You had to bring your own computer, pay for any work done by unpaid graduates and suffer some very poor management. Sales meetings consisted of long boring speeches by a very boastful sales manager who told you several times a week how much he was earning, and what tacky things he wasted his money on. Targets were like a weird religion to them. Having listened to how many sales he made in his first 8 weeks I beat that in 5 weeks as I knew people in the local market. Fortunately I'd walked out by then (as had 25% of the office!), so I gave the business to one of their local competitors. They seemed to have no respect for professional qualification and got around UK regulations by basing themselves overseas. Restrictions on who you could contact meant only the managers could contact potential clients that might have any interest in their products (leading to more boasting about how wonderful they were and how awful everyone else in the office was). Many local expats had little time for them and had banned their cold calling (understandably as it took place during their working days). Basically it really is a firm to avoid.
