Pros
I was skeptical at first. MThree contacted me via LinkedIn and it seemed too good to be true. After 3 phone interviews with MThree and 1 video conference interview with JPMorgan Chase & Co. I was offered a position with the company and embarked on a cross-country flight to Manhattan, where I would spend the next 4 weeks training with about 20 other new employees in the very heart of New York City. The training is paid, and the MThree team is incredibly welcoming and enthusiastic regarding their new trainees. We were scattered around Manhattan in various housing accommodations. I stayed in a 3 bedroom apartment with 2 of my colleagues. I didn't have any problems with roaches or anything like that. Overall, the living situation was very comfortable, and the training was intensive, but it's not too terribly hard. There's a real sense of camaraderie and "we're all in this together" from the MThree staff and the other trainees. The only major hiccups I encountered throughout my journey from freshly hired to sitting at my desk in the fantastic bank I've been placed in was the training being pushed back exactly 1 week from when I was originally told it would start, training pay not being weekly until it was fixed in the second week, and an issue with my first non-training paycheck, which was resolved within a couple days. I've read the other reviews here talking about how MThree failed to actually place them in a bank as promised, so I just wanted to point out that mine and 20 other new hires' experience was a seamless transition from training to working at the bank initially promised practically as soon as we returned from NYC. I've enjoyed my short time with the company so far (2.5 months at the time of this writing). I can't speak for MThree in the UK, but the New York team really made me feel valued. I will forever be grateful for the time spent in NYC, the new friends I've made, and the opportunity MThree Consulting gave me. Pros tl;dr - Work at leading banks around the world - Paid training (in my case, it was in NYC) - Experienced trainers - Helpful and very friendly staff - Fair starting pay with regular raises
Cons
It's not all sunshine and rainbows, but overall my experience was a highly positive one. MThree trains large batches of new hires for various positions and roles at various banks. You may not know exactly what your specific role will be or what exactly you're training for until the last week of training or so. For example, a lot of the finance material pertained to investment banks, but my actual role at the bank is wholly unrelated to investment banking. There's a underlying theme of not knowing what's going on sometimes. Not knowing your specific role, or start date, or who your manager will be, the address of your bank, etc. A lot of this can be found out by asking MThree staff (maybe more than once), but sometimes it takes a while for even them to get that information as they have to communicate with the bank. This is compounded if you need to move for your new job and make big life-changing arrangements during the training. In the end, all of these questions were answered, but the chaos was stressful.
