Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Reviews

Pros

Friendly atmosphere, helpful employees and management, team-oriented mindset across the trading floor. Senior managers mostly willing to help younger/newer employees and interns. Lots of after-work networking events and social outings help maintain camaraderie amongst staff. Great financial training classes available on site. Overall, everyone who works there seems relatively happy to be there.

Cons

The hours are not ideal... In early and out late in order to overlap with Japanese markets. Sometimes encounter language barrier-- many of the senior managers and economists from Tokyo (headquarters) speak poor English. Also you are expected to be able to adapt to the Japanese business style (not really a con just something to be aware of)

Advice to Senior Management

Continue offering training programs-- very helpful. Try to find a way to improve communication with staff at HQ in Tokyo. Improve research

Pros

Good company, good people. nice environment. Caring for staff, sociable, encouraging of opinions and ideas, job transfers, helpful, work life balance.

Cons

No ambition / vision! Forward looking, strategic! Need to try and compete with other Banks or staff will leave soon!

Advice to Senior Management

Have vision / ambition please? Try out new thinking! Diversify strategies, ideas, business models, be more competitive, seek other banking models?

Pros

Decent stability. Strong balance sheet ensures that company will survive through ups and downs. Bank is sizeable enough so it is not dependent on one person or group.

Cons

Management is completely incompetent. What may work in Japan does not translate outside of Japan. The best thing management could do would be to replace all Japanese management with competent local management so the business can start to compete on an equal footing.

Advice to Senior Management

Let competent people lead businesses and cease lifetime employment for home staff.

Pros

one of the few places hiring in late 2008. the management you would be working with are very nice people. they are your advocates and are good people to work for.

Cons

very low pay, below 25k in midtown manhattan. japanese style is to not promote movement within the company. don't sponsor for licensing and only recently offer to pay for masters. standard benefits package. the work you do will be the exact same thing every day. members of other divisions on your floor will absolutely not look you in the eye, especially the analysts. quite strange.

Advice to Senior Management

if you want quality people that will stay with the company, you have to provide incentive $$ and opportunity to develop professionally.

Pros

I can't really think of any good reasons to work here. I worked as a temp employee and was let go under questionable circumstances. Perhaps if one obtains a higher level position with solid prospects for upward mobility Bank of Tokyo would be a good option.

Cons

The people I worked under directly were not particularly competent. I had very little interaction with management. I felt that my skills and abilities were undervalued. The Senior Management didn't even know my name, or bother to ask.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay more attention to your employees. I think that more interaction between Senior Management and other employees would improve morale and productivity.

Pros

If you are happy doing nothing, then this is the place to be! Lots of down time and you do not have to think alot. I spend alot of time reviewing world events, therefore, I'm a walking collection of newspaper articles. I can tell you what's going on anywhere in the world. I have a lot of time to learn new things such as UML, C# and .net.

Cons

You may forget your name because your brain is not allowed to be used.

Advice to Senior Management

Close all North American offices and put us out of our misery!