Edward Jones Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Relationships are vital in this organization"

What do you like about working at Edward Jones?

"I like the pay. I also like how my boss is relaxed and lenient about time off requests. I like using my brain and problem solving. I like helping people"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be sure you really want to spend all your time sitting in an office before you do this."

What don't you like about working at Edward Jones?

"I don't like the work. I don't like sitting in and office all day. I don't like being cooped up inside. I don't like working in the financial industry. I don't like not doing something creative and tangible. I need my work to be meaningful and worthwhile"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I'm not sure I would do anything differently. The culture is good, and the firm is on the right track."

"I have worked for Edward Jones for almost a year. I found the company has a very strong training background."

"My experience has not been positive but that is primarily due to my local working environment and not Edward Jones overall."

"It all depends on your region."

What do you like about working at Edward Jones?

"Ed Jones is different than any other brokerage firm, you can be successful if you build the right relationships. Many of the employees are very helpful if you reach out to them. You can have your own office. Great job if you are retired and want to work at your own pace or anyone with another check coming in."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You have to be personable, FAs are outgoing and like meeting new people. Don't try and use fancy words and be smart just talk to them like they are your friends and if you meet someone who works there get a referral and you have 95% better chance of getting the job. Oh, its a 2month hiring process."

What don't you like about working at Edward Jones?

"The business model is stone age, I see how it works in small towns. In bigger cities the competition has more to offer. They hire people with no experience typically, if you work there you will never meet someone that transferred from a prestigious firm, they hire teachers, car salesmen, people from outside the industry. Payouts are low and you never have a book of business, its all theirs. They cheat on the best place to work annual reporting which is why they are always on top of the list. They pre screen whats going to be said to see if you can participate and only successful people from the firm are invited, not random by any means. The 401k has no match, medical benefits are a joke. Pay is the lowest in the industry. You have a week of training after exams and you are on your own always calling st louis home office when you need help, trainers are not paid extra and often tell you they are busy, you feel bad in front of clients when you dont have an answer and call to get support for things you were not trained in and they say its just in time training ( what a joke). Most people work from home and try do appointments at coffee shops or clients house. Lastly, if you are analytical and like looking at stocks or watching the market, this is not the job for you. They will tell you that you are only an asset gatherer, you sell mutual funds only for long term, no such thing as buy low sell high. You are a salesman at jones not a broker."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Have accountability for new hires working from home, everyone should work out of another FAs office so you know they are improving and getting the job done. Hire people with talent, older people with money are not going to give there retirement money to a 21 year old graduate with a babyface and no life experience 9 out of 10 times and you guys know the stats, why waste so much money hiring and training people who are obviously bound to fail."

What do you like about working at Edward Jones?

"Pretty good training to enter the industry. Great trips to fun meetings."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Yes, if you demand that you go into the PASS program at home office. This insures you are trained in all departments. Once you are there you will understand how the Jones system truly works. DO NOT accept to just become an advisor out in the field right away unless the situation is just absolutely mind blowing."

What don't you like about working at Edward Jones?

"Literally, every chance to make money off of the advisors was taken. When I left the company and went on COBRA, I was paying the same amount on COBRA as I was on the company medical plan. Because it seems the firm was profiting, as a partnership, off of their advisors on their self insured medical plan. Also, any new marketing or advertising initiatives (google adwords) were used only to drive new biz to top producers, never to newer advisors."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Come up with an original idea for once. Millions of dollars in compensation I think warrants some original thought."

What do you like about working at Edward Jones?

"My coworkers are the only thing that makes this job worth doing."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"DON'T..turn around and find another job! Find a company that appreciates diversity in people, instead of clones, and will respect your ideas and opinions and vales change."

What don't you like about working at Edward Jones?

"The micromanagement is insufferable. There is no room for growth and ideas are pushed away, or even taken and GIVEN away to favorites in the office. I am complete disillusioned and hate each day I have to wake up and do the same job over and over and over again."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would ensure that my management team was not self serving and egotistical. They promote undeserving applicants and they tower over you like you are a slug on the ground to dissect."

"Don't bother trying unless you already have a network of multi-million dollar friends and relatives lined up to do business. The areas they will assign you to are already tapped out by the old guys who are there now. When you crash and burn they will only give you the boot and give all your hard work over to the guys who are already established."

"Great employer, enjoyed working with customers and solving their problems."

What do you like about working at Edward Jones?

"I liked the challenge that every day brought, opening new accounts, and training others to become successful financial advisors."

"If you're single and live in your parents basement this is the job for you."

"Good place to work but little job security."

What do you like about working at Edward Jones?

"I liked building a business and being able to be my own boss."

What don't you like about working at Edward Jones?

"Infrastructure did not provide enough support."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Place new advisors in an office as soon as possible."

"This was the worst job ever!"

What do you like about working at Edward Jones?

"Ample time to look for other jobs."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"DO NOT interview with this company unless you have no other options. If you do interview, you will be hired."

What don't you like about working at Edward Jones?

"Medical benefit is awful. Unresponsive to assistance. Nothing more than a PonzI scheme. FA must become a LTD partner. Must have so many FA's to become LTD partner. Must have so many LTD partners to become Gen Partner and finally make decent money."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Actually follow up on things that are promised. Be more upfront about the compensation during interviews."