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      Good work/life balance - Research Associate RBC Employee Review

      4.0
      2 Jul 2008
      Research associate
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Stable platform due to parent company, so less concerns about being layed off. In research, broad industry coverage and senior analysts are reluctant as they know as long as they do a decent job, they will be compensated well. The associates have little to no room to grow unless in rare cases, analysts are fired, and even then it is unlikely that associate gets promoted. Not the same stress and hours of bulge brackets and is likely what makes people stay around and build longer term careers there (again, referring to more senior analysts).

      Cons

      At the lowest-end of industry compensation. Research associates make $75-85k with ~$20k in bonus.

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      5.0
      9 Jun 2026
      Senior technical systems analyst
      Recommend
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      Business outlook

      Pros

      Opportunities to work on enterprise-scale systems with modern tooling and automation initiatives. Excellent collaboration between infrastructure and incident management teams; vendor coordination is efficient. Competitive compensation and benefits package, including solid health coverage and retirement matching.

      Cons

      Workload spikes during major incidents can challenge work-life balance, especially when on-call.

      3.0
      18 Jun 2026
      Investment associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Stable work life balance. The culture is really great, very easy to work with complex management and managers. Willing to help you grow and learn with clients

      Cons

      Not a lot of room for growth unless you come in the door with that expectation. It can be very easy to get stuck in this role as your pay slowly increases and the job title mostly stays the same. Associate promotions and raises are rarely given and take a lot of coercion to get.

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