TD Securities Reviews

Pros

Reasonable working hours. There are crunch projects from time to time. But overall reasonable.
Good diversification in term of ethnicity , gender, ...etc.

Cons

Limited opportunity for fast track career advancement.
Limited exposure to different aspects of the business.
Like any other bank, lots of politics.

Pros

Good culture and great people alot of fun to work here

Cons

Alot of inefficiencies, middle mgmt lacks vision and know how

Advice to Senior Management

focus on building a sustainable solutions as apposed to keeping the lights running

Pros

TD is a large company and good experience. I built my trading and software skill in TD. Benefit in TD is good.

Cons

I did not give a chance to promote and grow in TD. A lot of politics at TD. Not friendly.

Advice to Senior Management

Project Manager set up schedule at there is always not make sense. Trust old people when Manager change. More hand on.

Pros

Smart people. Lots of resources. Work on big and interesting transactions with premiere corporations in Canada. Given lots of responsibility and plenty of face time with clients.

Cons

Competitive environment, but you can expect that at every ibank. Getting called into work when you are scheduled for vacation.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to at least attempt to foster a more congenial work environment.

Pros

1. nice co-workers
2. great balance between life and work
3. employees are usually treated fairly
4. good benefit for employees

Cons

1. maybe slow career growth within the firm as the turnover is typically low
2. the overall firm is kinda conservative

Advice to Senior Management

1. act a bit more aggressively on major business decisions
2. well compensate and recognize talented employees
3. compensate and promote employees based on performance, not on years of experience

Pros

a very local banking firm

Cons

Worst place to work for, manager is not opened minded, never disclose anything to employee
no room to growth.
a very local bank with no international prospect
super old technology

Pros

Management is very good about letting employees work from home or taking days off last minute

Very cordial & polite atmosphere exuded by overall staff

Senior management appears to have an open door policy ... receptive to suggestions

Cons

Delegation of supervisory oversight should be a cause of great concern for senior management in NYC.

Very few in management know the systems inside and out nor does mgmt understand the procedures or work entailed and assumed by their staff because there is no checks or balances in seeing if the staff is doing what they should be doing correctly (assuming they are even doing it at all)...

Slackers get by very easily at TD because it is so difficult to remove them after the initial 90 days...

Advice to Senior Management

Get more hands on to the day to day operations so you can avoid a UBS nightmare...

Instead of just overpaying for delegators who are just YES men and internet surfers - Hire managers that want to learn the operations from A-Z so the managers can be leaders that understand when there is a crisis or streamline the process to help alleviate the overload of the daily grind (NOT ADD TO IT).

Pros

Good Benefit and decent salary

Cons

Politics, other people slacking but get greater compensation

Pros

The company is viewed favourably by many people in term of culture. People are in general very courteous and helpful.

Cons

Some jobs requires long hours, with relatively lower-than-industrial pay. Promotion usually comes from internal transfers - it seems that same class joiners are promoted together, so promotion may come slower than expected for hard workers who wants to get ahead.

Advice to Senior Management

None.

Pros

Good career opportunities, professional, smart people

Cons

Long hours and lots of internal politics