Pros
The initial onboarding experience was simple, took about a week between expressing my intent to work for Barrett and my license being sponsored. They offer employees tons of checklists even though ARIVE has the process pretty well ironed out. They have an onboarding team, weekly sales calls, zoom meetings for new hires, and just about every resource you could need if you are new to being a broker. Their online Facebook group for employees is also extremely helpful with a ton of information - especially those new to mortgage who need information more often. Overall, they left me alone to do my job and were there if I needed anything. No toxic culture, compliance oriented, and easy going group of people to work with. Highly recommend for retail originators going to broker side.
Cons
None really come to mind related to Barrett as an employer. The one thing would be credit report ordering. I tried not charging credit reports up front which added up more quickly than I realized. I would urge new hires to create a script and always charge for credit reports up front if the new hire is from a retail mortgage company. That was a learning curve just getting into the habit of asking for that up front, but not really a Barrett issue at all.