Retail banking is changing, Citizens isn't keeping up - Licensed Relationship Banker Citizens Employee Review

3.0
Dec 3, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

You meet some great people.

Cons

Very difficult to get a promotion out of the retail side of the company. Bank prefers to hire from outside than train/promote to new position. Unrealistic sales metrics and goals, increasing level of micromanagement, and middle management that is far removed from the experience of branch employees. Citizens is not doing a good job adjusting to the new realities of retail banking. Foot traffic is slowing and their old models for generating business are not working as well anymore, this difference is being pushed on branch level employees without a clear direction from corporate.

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Cons

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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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