Pros
- Training programs and trainers are EXCELLENT - Benefits are good
Cons
- Compensation is bottom rung. I was embarrassed with some of the salaries that I had to offer to new employees. - Little effort spent on Marketing in the Minnesota market. - Verint scheduling system runs staffing like a joke. One teller and one banker? This delivers poor service to customers when everything is in DUAL CONTROL and you constantly have insufficient staffing. Couldn't schedule a vacation without worrying about coverage. - Lower Management is terrible. My exempt managers rarely put in close to 30 hours per week. Constantly lying about "business appointments". - People are WAY too involved in each other's personal lives. It makes it really uncomfortable. - I had a DM that was sneaking around with someone in facilities (both married employees)... closed door meetings for 3+ hours... (shaking my head) - People are constantly leaving and moving positions. Never the same face in the same place for more than 3 months at a time. - Very political. Unnecessarily so. If you weren't liked, you had no potential of upward movement. - Although training programs are steller at Associated, good luck getting to training. - HR departments are biased towards Senior Management and tends to side with them on many pressing issues.