Pros
- Good central location to work from - Made some good friends, a handful of 'good' lifers remain - Good summer/Christmas parties - 'Chaos is a ladder', stick it out and you could probably make manager (everyone else will have left) - Things have probably reached their nadir, there is a new CEO incoming and staff benefits have improved a little - it should get better...maybe - The hate may give you focus
Cons
- Nobody has any faith in the product, its a dizzying mess of charges, forms and bs - Most of the good long staff with a few years experience have left - Constant petty conflicts between the offices and teams, think a bloodless GoT - Most of the forms are unprintable crap and the website is embarrassing. CB has a real problem with 'simple' and 'plain' English. - Pay is okay, benefits are laughable. 40 years of work on the pension contribution they give and I would still not qualify for a CB SIPP - Constant unease that everything is going to be sold off tomorrow - Almost no actual pension or investment literature training over several years - Combination of staff having no faith in the product, no training and the stress of people leaving has led to an unacceptably high level of staff sickness. - Constant changes to product and charges confuse staff almost as much as they confuse the poor clients stuck with CB - A lot of directors/seniors empire building as another review says - the constant jostling for position at the trough is unseemly - £1 charity donation to pick up post - k thx CB
