Terrible Management - Personal Banking Representative Santander Employee Review

2.0
Feb 22, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible working hours. No working Sundays. Good incentive packages.

Cons

Constant management changes at the top level, most recent change has destroyed all of their unique european business practices and turned it into any old pushy sales sales sales american bank. Along with the constant changes in management,constant changes with direction at every change. Understaffed branches galore and no intention to fully staff any branch, cheap solution that's still not effective was to cross change Bankers to do Teller duties and vis versa. Then using the "universal" approach to try and cut staff from branches that almost have a properly staffed branch. Not enough investment to actually tackle their biggest problems. Such as poor customer service, old systems that take months if not years to update, pay competitive salaries, give actual salary increases during promotions etc. Consistently ranked last or almost last in customer service year after year because of the perfect storm of Terrible Slow Systems, lengthy redundant processes, and lack of staff which in turn gives no time to catch up on customer problems.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Like most retail banking roles, there is a strong sales component. With fewer customers visiting branches due to online banking and ATMs, much of the day is spent making outbound calls to existing clients, trying to set appointments, and push products and services. While I understand the importance of sales in the industry, I personally felt there was significant pressure to prioritize sales goals over relationship building and client service, which I was not comfortable with.

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