Pros
-Work life balance is probable one of the few highlights.. -Certain managers (MD or above) have good vision, but...see Cons
Cons
-High proportion of unprofessional staff regardless of job titles. Excessive gossips/non-work related conversations/talking behind one's back is unheard of and rather disturbing. This aspect is understandably prevalent in any organization, but should be dealt with urgently to preserve/improve overall productivity (i.e.: policy in place to disincentivize individuals so that they will learn to respect others and mature up by concealing their immediate needs to gossip about things every 30 minutes, or completely take the gossips outside of the workplace) -Promotion tends to be based on favouritism as opposed to meritocracy; that is, transparency of/rationale behind the promotion process is little to none. As such, the firm could have been marginally sending away individuals with better work ethic and integrity while retaining the ones who understand how to game the system. By the way, there are lots of gamers. -Family like culture seems to strangle the necessary feedback loop and reassure certain egotistical individuals to continue conducting themselves the way they have been doing, and any criticism/feedback only leads to adversity as opposed to the needed agreement on how things should be done and the necessary improvement for the team and DBRS. -On 2nd point in "Pros" section, good vision sometimes does not translate into value-added results/products, especially when some of your team members (Eg: VP/SVP) only talk big but fail to deliver in time. Certain individuals need to set ego/seniority/laziness aside and roll up their sleeves to get things done.