Stay away unless you're desperate for a job - Research Specialist TD International Employee Review

Great benefits Smart and brilliant leadership with a heart You are just not a number, your thoughts and your voice are heard Your contributions are valued, have impact and it matters A happy place to be!

None. This is a great company to work for!

- great collective of junior analysts that you trauma bond with. Everyone is overworked and underpaid and that creates a shared struggle. - some team leads are great and will cover for your if you make a mistake - again, there are a lot of smart, overqualified analysts that you can have very interesting conversations with and learn from - as previously detailed, there’s sometimes seltzer in the fridge

- extremely long hours for meaningless work. Sometimes it feels like a sweatshop. They try to be forward about awful work/life balance, but them being forward doesn’t change the fact they this work is soul-crushing. After 3-4 months, expect 9-8 and 9-9 be very common. This especially applies if you speak a critical language like Arabic. - they expect you two write 2 reports and find EVERYTHING about the subject, even if this stuff is outside of scope and outside of standard research procedure. Sometimes, they expect you to know the most niche things about random jurisdictions. With lack of industry-specific or jurisdiction-specific expertise, it comes harder and harder to consistently find everything. - the workload distribution is very uneven. They don’t really scope out reports before assigning them and so you end up with some people having reports that are no longer than 500 words and some people having to spend the whole 8 hours on a report. Still, you’re expected to write two a day. - pay does not commensurate with the quality of work expected from analysts. They expect these “client-ready” reports that are perfect and haven’t missed anything, but only willing to pay you 60,000$ a year. There’s no problem with offering lower pay, but you should expect less quality in work with lower pay. It’s hard to care about each report when you know you can make comparable salary bartending at a nearby bar. - you don’t get to build an expertise. You get random reports in random jurisdictions and subsequently you never really learn specific knowledge about regions or jurisdictions that makes you a better, more defined analyst in the long run.