Vantaggi
* WFC is a large enterprise, so there's plenty of opportunity to move laterally, and due to the business unit orientation of the company, different units tend to have quite different cultures * To the extent that any money center bank will do, it really helps to get a view of finance from the perspective of a large bank.
Svantaggi
* Management is extremely hierarchial and possesses very poor communication skills. I never talked to anyone two levels up the org chart and was explicitly forbidden to speak three levels up (by the guy two levels up), even though there offices were adjacent to mine. Most communication with either was also by email (no phone-calling). * Wells Fargo's comp model is broken and allows for very little variable comp. Internal promotions are hard to come by. If you're an average worker and okay with that, go for it. When arguing for an increase in my comp, I was told that the best way would be to first get a job offer from another firm, then use that to argue for a matching offer. That wasn't intended to be insulting, but rather because it's the only way managers would have ammo to argue for any extraordinary increase. (I did, by the way, get some external offers, although I just accepted one instead of fighting for salary at WFC.) * Given the lack of rewards and few opportunities to truly showcase your work to management, some units have a weird, dysfunctional, backstab-y culture.