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    Scotiabank Reviews

    Updated 22 April, 2018
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    Scotiabank President and CEO Brian J. Porter
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    • Depending on the area, work/life balance is challenging to achieve (in 61 reviews)

    • Can be hard to obtain Full-time at first (in 34 reviews)

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    1. "Good place to be"

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      Current Employee - Collections Officer in Ottawa, ON
      Current Employee - Collections Officer in Ottawa, ON
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Scotiabank full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Best salary in the industry.

      Cons

      Less organized in administration and training. No training in French

      Advice to Management

      Some are just bad and some are good and ready to find solution

    2. "Manager"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at Scotiabank full-time

      Pros

      Good team work, generally nice people in the company

      Cons

      quite some pressure at work if you're not familiar with what you're doing

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    3. "Great future"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Toronto, ON
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Toronto, ON
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Scotiabank full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Great customer centric, forward thinking company. Competitive compensation and benefits. Coworkers are all great and incredibly smart, humble people.

      Cons

      With adaptations to shifting consumer and market demands come many challenges such as organizational shifts, restructuring of roles and sometimes an unclear sense of direction.

      Advice to Management

      Keep forging ahead. The future of the bank is bright as long as you stick to the plan of reinventing this century old business

    4. "amazing place"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      Pros

      easy going fast pace great benefits

      Cons

      long days, busy everyday, on the go

    5. "Financial Analyst"

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      Current Employee - Financial Analyst in Toronto, ON
      Current Employee - Financial Analyst in Toronto, ON
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Scotiabank (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Good work environment and culture. Snacks and drinks are provided. Really nice teamwork and different opportunities to work with different projects and teams.

      Cons

      Need to offer more training opportunities to contractors. Sometimes treat them in a different way with full time employees, especially faced with opportunities. Don't let contractors feel like they are seasonal. Please provide more care.

      Advice to Management

      Construct goals in a more strategic way may be wise.

    6. "senior accounting clerk"

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      Former Employee - Senior Accounting Clerk in Vancouver, BC
      Former Employee - Senior Accounting Clerk in Vancouver, BC
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at Scotiabank full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      awesome co workers, good benefits ,management understood family needs and accommodated, promote from within

      Cons

      nothing now that I have been unemployed for a while I realize what a really great place it was to work I always knew that but now I realize it even more

    7. "Director, Enterprise Risk"

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      Current Employee - Director in Toronto, ON
      Current Employee - Director in Toronto, ON
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Scotiabank full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Diversity, automation, dynamic, professional

      Cons

      Automation also entails a reduction in the workforce.

    8. "financial advisor"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Scotiabank full-time

      Pros

      amazing place to work

      Cons

      nothing to say here

      Advice to Management

      good management

    9. "Engineer"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Toronto, ON
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Toronto, ON
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Scotiabank full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Very relaxed working hours in general

      Cons

      Very strict hierarchy with limited room for growth

    10. "Changes to workstations - don't do it"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Toronto, ON
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Toronto, ON
      Doesn't Recommend
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Scotiabank full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Some really good management, work life balance

      Cons

      salary $15K-20K under market, new "agile" work stations feel like a sweatshop

      Advice to Management

      Reconsider agile workstations, making the office feel like a sweatshop - it just rows and rows of developers at open tables and chairs. The staff are loosing their ability to make their workstations (because they don't have one) their own space with simple things like a picture of their child at their desk. Its going to lead to disengaged staff.

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