BMO Capital Markets Reviews in Canada

Former Employee – worked at BMO Capital Markets as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Good pay, team environment, ample opportunities

Cons – Office politics, bad work environment, not opportunity to grow

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at BMO Capital Markets as an intern for more than a year

Pros – High responsibility for interns through introduction of diverse projects and ease of communication
Diverse platform for learning with highly accommodating peers
Rapid growth opportunities

Cons – Highly Stressful, which is expected from any capital markets organization.
Very competitive, jobs can always be on the line, at any point in time there are hundreds of qualified intelligent individuals lined up for your job.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at BMO Capital Markets as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Some talented and friendly people

Cons – Spine very poor management who don't have the ability or confidence to make necessary changes.

Advice to Senior Management – take the feedback you are getting from staff and act upon it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at BMO Capital Markets

Pros – the most professional bank in Canada.

Cons – very prefessional and friendly to customer.

Advice to Senior Management – keep serving prople in Canada.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at BMO Capital Markets

Pros – Location is good and close to public transit

Cons – Management was awful. Promised a lot during the interview and changed their tone shortly after being hired. No support and no communication.

Advice to Senior Management – Do what you say and say what you mean.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at BMO Capital Markets

Pros – Stability: One of top 5 Canadian banks what can happen to it

Cons – No individual approach: huge monstrous faceless corporation

Advice to Senior Management – Get read of people who pretend they work

Former Employee – worked at BMO Capital Markets

Pros – - Good Canadian brand name
- Opportunities for movement within regional offices
- Relative (among Canadian banks) high occurences of promotion from Analyst to Associate

Cons – - Sweatshop mentality
- High degree of pitching
- Lack of consistent deal low in industries not named mining
- Low quallity of Associates due to bad reputation among Bay Street

Advice to Senior Management – - Increase junior staff to change reputation on Bay Street as a sweatshop
- Increase recruiting efforts to attract higher caliber Associates

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at BMO Capital Markets

Pros – - BMO is a good company
- good place to start career
- learning opportunities
- new skills
- good locations

Cons – - favouritism
- traditional senior management
- no technology
- no appreciation for employees
- no appraisal for experienced and hardworking employees

Advice to Senior Management – get rid of the old management style in senior management and implement new technology base for convenience for the employee and the organization . operations should start spending money on value edit functions to retain good employees and should assess where the money is being spent

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at BMO Capital Markets

Pros – - good professional development programs
- clearly defined processes
- clearly established protocols
- people strictly follow outlined processes
- good place to learn

Cons – - people strictly follow outlined processes with no thought of what makes sense
- career advancement very, very limited (not what you know, but who you know)
- people promoted not based on merit or accomplishment and contribution
- people that have been there for a long time do not want to changes inefficient ways
- very adverse to changes

Advice to Senior Management – Do the right thing for everyone's sake and take a look at where things can be improved. Really listen to what the employees are saying in the annual survey. Stop playing catch-up with the competition and do something that will vault the company into the forefront or find your particular niche.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at BMO Capital Markets

Pros – One of the leading investment banks in Canada. Strong mining and M&A group.

Cons – Lack of information sharing within the group. Lack of brand recognition outside Canada. A bit laid back.

Advice to Senior Management – Allow staff who wants to move at a faster pace to do so. More internal development and training are necessary to develop in house talent and retain go getters.