Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Reviews

Pros

Friendly staff, learnt a lot. The site is in a good location at downtown North York.

Cons

The work was a bit stressful. Tight deadlines meant I had to work many extra hours.

Pros

Every one is very nice and welcoming. Get to work with a lot of different people

Cons

Workload was too light, get bored very quickly

Pros

Great Employees at the Jax location had worked with them for many of years and we relentless performers.

Cons

New ownership made it uncomfortable to remain in current position and eventually a few left to find different employment where there wasn't so much turmoil.

Advice to Management

Create an environment where the employee can be comfortable le and trust their employers in the fact that they are approachable and honest in their reign.

Pros

friendly environment great leaders energetic and determined

Cons

Not many cons. Maybe the toilets are too small.

Pros

A fantastic place to develop your career. Very talented teams to work with. Good benefits, health and dental. Good salary for most positions. Good location near the subway.

Cons

Tough to get changes across. Not very work from home friendly. Big organizational changes. Too many conflicting technologies. Not a lot of lunch options.

Advice to Management

Please cut down the politics on getting changes through!

Pros

1) Pay and salary for younger folks is decent (though not outstanding). 2) There are changes that have been introduced or will soon be introduced to help change and improve culture (dress for your day, remote working, etc.), which is a good sign. 3) The firm will relocate to a downtown location in a couple of years.

Cons

1) For junior investment employees, it takes forever to get more than 3 weeks of vacation, because doing so depends on getting promoted (see #2 on why that's unlikely to happen). 2) Career development and promotion opportunities at the firm are extremely poor, which is likely why more and more junior folks will continue to leave as time goes on. You do NOT get promoted here for being good at your job. Political... ability and Machiavellianism are more important than your investment acumen. 3) Senior investment employees have been around forever and this has led to a lack of any true innovation or educated risk-taking, and the continued implementation of investment approaches that either don't work or don't make sense. 4) The executive team is "all talk", and they fail to acknowledge that politics, bureaucracy, and stale senior talent are making the firm a difficult place to work for younger people. But there is no incentive for them to change things, because these are the very characteristics of the firm that they rely on to maintain their powerful positions.

Advice to Management

Read the Cons listed above and put in place carefully thought out strategies to resolve them. Don't claim that these issues don't exist. Acknowledge their existence and then work tirelessly to resolve them.

Pros

Great team, really nice people, very supportive of family obligation, stability

Cons

Can get comfortable and complacent, not conducive to changes. Difficult to move up, progress through lateral move

Pros

Power . One team . Freindly . Reason

Cons

The love of the team. Cooperative action. Continuous production

Advice to Management

Good luck