Extremely Frustrated - High Sales Pressure, No Opportunity to make sales - Anonymous employee Citizens Employee Review

2.0
Aug 2, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

As a customer, one of the top 3 to bank with. Branches everywhere, open 7 days a week. If you have a background in retail (Dept stores, malls) and you like it, retail banking (in branch) may be for you. If you can make it through a year of high pressure, definitely room to grow with internal departments.

Cons

Retail banking literally mirrors any "retail" job (Department Store, clothing stores, the mall) The universal banker program is horrible. One is expected to meet high sales goals but never allowed time to prospect for sales because one is always stuck on the teller line due to short staffing.

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Coming from a long time in the public service I was a bit nervous of the work pace, however it has been a great transition. The team and leadership supplied me with all the equipment and most of the programs I needed to get started on the first day. I have constant support for any of my ideas and my business insights even though I'm new to this industry.

Cons

The four day in office requirement is a bit much, though being new it is good to be in and meet colleagues. There seems to be a few different groups within the same business line that are working/competing towards the same project goal and the lower management are unaware the project was shared with other groups. Duplicity of the project has created a "my outcome is better" attitude.

3.0
May 4, 2026
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Pros

The pros are the benefits, the pay could be higher for all that you learn and have to go through for ten weeks. They offer tuition assistance and opportunity for upskilling and advancing in such little time and the remote flexibility is great too

Cons

Management sucks and of course they have their favorites and then they have the people they target like myself. They micromanage bad and are quick to give you an occurrence for nothing. Their systems are so slow and then they blame you for being five ten minutes late logging in. They want you to tell them when you get up to breathe, go to the bathroom and they push for you to take calls and know boatloads of info after on 3 weeks of training. What they don’t know is that I will sue for any wrong doings or discrimination and I keep records of everything

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