An easy place to excel - Strategist Wells Fargo Employee Review

3.0
Jul 16, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Wells Fargo is a good place to learn about the complexities of managing a large, sales-oriented business. It is very customer focused relative to other financial services companies of its size, and values thinking and doing across particular product lines to find better ways of creating and benefitting from value for customers. It is also not particularly difficult to manage time for the rest of your life there. There will be periods when you have to put in some longer hours, but compared to elite companies in other industries like technology, consulting, investment banking, or retail, you generally have rather light hours. You mostly get ahead by working smarter rather than harder than other people.

Cons

Your colleagues will generally be B players rather than superstars. I suspect they are better than the average worker, but still quite a ways from the very best and brightest in the world. While that means if you are an A player it's easy to outshine the majority of folks, it will not necessarily be easy to move around in new positions if you are really good at the one you have, as people will come to depend on you very heavily in your own department, and others may be intimidated by you. It's a pretty political environment. If you're not good at this, you'll get rolled over. If you are good at, you'll have no problem getting things done and getting ahead.

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4.0
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Pros

Benefits (but cost creeping up and coverage creeping down each year), Good Morale Both Management and Coworkers, and Honestly a Great Company.

Cons

Cross Selling is the only focus now, firing employees who are great at their job in every area that should matter but if the cross selling results are not meeting the ever ridiculous quota (which continues to rise) than you may not have a job next month. Expectation for customers to say yes to cross selling, leaving you with no real control of your job security. Stress!

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