TD Ameritrade Employee Reviews about "manager"

Pros

Great culture, people, and lots of free food

Cons

Call Center and tends to be that for every role unless you move into a manager position

Pros

Manager was great and supportive

Cons

Metrics daily to measure number of calls/contacts

Pros

This was a good company to work for, but I just didn't like my position. My manager was extremely nice and would try to give me one on one advise to help me improve my work performance. The health insurance was pretty good. There was opportunity for growth within the company which was nice.

Cons

There was a lot of push to do sales. Also, our call times and statistics were all micro-managed. It was a bit of a pain. They expected us to keep taking call after call without pausing at all. It was a very tedious job. The pay was very standard for the amount of work we had to do.

Pros

Rodger, I have dedicated enough years to our company to feel entitled to a comment.There are quite a few of us like me. Seems like at every manager meeting we would count the people by tenure and admire the loyalty. 5, 10, 15, 20 years of service. We were different, felt more like a family than a firm. We've been through a lot, we endured a lot. We stuck it out, hoping our hard work and transition to asset gathering would pay off. I can't imagine the health scare that prompted your decision to sell, but in the end, the payout belongs solely to you. You don't owe us a thing. You paid us a salary, we did the job. However, please understand the reason you are able to sell for $4 billion is not because of you. It is because of us, pushing through and making up for one bad decision after another. We pushed through when, in the middle of a financial meltdown you decided to open 150 more branches and kill bonuses by skyrocketing the fixed cost. We pushed through when you decided that technology is not worth investing in. We soldiered on when you continued to allow ineptness on the executive leadership team just because a person was with you from the beginning. Not a bad person per se, but no experience running a company of this size and too proud to admit it. We stayed when you finally hired a person to lead us and then fired them just as they were starting to turn us around. At the end, we dismantled the company as it was and rebuilt as a sales force for you. You yourself admitted it was not a job you could ever do. I remember you standing on a stage once, telling us about putting your trust into a person and not realizing until it's too late that they've had a knife in your back, twisting it slowly. That it is what it feels like right now. We will recover, probably never trusting another leader this much again. Most of us still do not know if people being severed or those with jobs are the winners. I really hope $4 billion will do for you what $3 billion could not.

Cons

For better or worse, everything has changed.

Pros

Coworkers are the best part and makes work fun. 50% match up to 6%. Can self manage own 401k funds so unlimited flexibility. Starts at 10hours/mo for PTO (including sick days) and very easy to get time off. Great health benefits. Lots of opportunity to move up but typically must stay in a role for a year before you can move.

Cons

LEAN is being pushed more and more and that is causing more micro management. Most managers are cool but when you get above your immediate manager it is just people pressuring them to micro manage.