Qtrade Financial Group Reviews

Pros

Friendly people Great environment Currently Using up to date technologies Management and leadership is awesome. Client is company's business department so deadlines are not as strict as other companies with external clients

Cons

May stick with a technology for several years

Advice to Management

Need to improve the learning process for new employees. To help them pick up the domain knowledge soon

Pros

high entreprenurial spirit and noted for can-do attitude

Cons

resource allocations were often misplaced

Pros

Good Experience, great for learning, fun culture

Cons

Very Political, managers playing favorites

Advice to Management

Treat everybody well and equally

Pros

Good work environment, nice people.

Cons

Chaos sometimes, some strange situation happens.

Advice to Management

NA

Pros

Decent company to work for overall. Lots of pros like: - Everyone is helpful as the company is very client centric - Benefits such as extended health and dental - Vacation days are industry standard - Perks such as company / department lunches, social events, etc. - Salary is decent - Excellent work/life balance

Cons

- Management seems to be very out of touch with employees - Promotes an open door policy but does not follow through. Suggestions/ideas/requests from employees are rarely heard and even less likely to have any follow-up or follow through. - Managers tend to play favourites with certain employees and rules/exceptions apply to certain individuals in the department - Lots of micro-managing in the department with... lots of overlap amongst many team members being tasked to do the same thing. As a result this creates department-wide dysfunction and chaos. Manager(s) seem to not want to be held responsible for how the department functions. - No opportunities to employees to escalate or suggest improvements to the department - This department in particular has a lot of dead weight. There are individuals on the team who after a couple of years is still incapable of doing what they were hired to to. Manager(s) tolerate and accommodate these employees even though it impacts the well being of the overall team. - Manager(s) in this department lack the skill sets to run this team properly. Too much time spent on gossiping, playing sides with upper management and executives, rather than doing what she/he was originally hired to do. - Very little empowerment, encouragement and support for team members. The manager is the first person to throw employees under the bus to save herself. - There is no room for growth in this department.

Advice to Management

- Listent to employees and follow-up/follow through (even though if there isn't much you can do) - Have a better hiring (and firing) process in place. If employees can't do what they were hired to do, the manager needs to stop accommodating these individuals. - Treat all employees fairly - Promote employees who work hard and go beyond their roles - Managers just need to be nice decent human beings! This seems... to be lost in this department.

Pros

higher than average salary for some positions. That's it.

Cons

poor training procedures, too much middle management layers, incompetent HR dept ( i got cheated out of my final month's MSP coverage), little room for growth.

Advice to Management

you need a major upper management overhaul, hopefully Desjardins identifies the deadwood.

Pros

Good pay Relaxed work environment Access to markets

Cons

Not much room to move up Not a place for the ambitious

Advice to Management

Training is needed badly

Pros

It is a growing company, successful in its industry, great people to work with, and interesting and challenging work.

Cons

It is a growing company with some growing pains.

Advice to Management

Yes I would recommend this company to friends and colleagues.